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Cover Bentham, Jeremy (1748–1832)

Bentham, Jeremy (1748–1832)  

Maker: Henry William Pickersgill

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Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) by Henry William Pickersgill, 1829 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Bentham, Jeremy (1748–1832), philosopher, jurist, and reformer  

F. Rosen

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Bentham, Jeremy (1748–1832), philosopher, jurist, and reformer, was born on 4 February 1748 in Church Lane, Houndsditch, London, the eldest of the seven children of Jeremiah Bentham (1712–1792), attorney, and Alicia Woodward Whitehorne (d. 1759), the eldest daughter of Thomas Grove, a mercer of ...

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Cover Burnett, James, Lord Monboddo (bap. 1714, d. 1799)

Burnett, James, Lord Monboddo (bap. 1714, d. 1799)  

Maker: John Brown

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James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (bap. 1714, d. 1799) by John Brown Scottish National Portrait Gallery

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Burnett, James, Lord Monboddo (bap. 1714, d. 1799), judge and philosopher  

Iain Maxwell Hammett

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Burnett, James, Lord Monboddo (bap. 1714, d. 1799), judge and philosopher, was born at Monboddo, near Fordoun, Kincardineshire, and baptized on 25 October 1714. He was the eldest surviving son of James Burnett (b. 1688), third laird of Monboddo, and Elizabeth (1690–1765)...

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Coke, Zachary (bap. 1618?), logician and lawyer  

Roland Hall

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Coke, Zachary (bap. 1618?), logician and lawyer, was the son of Thomas Coke, of Cornwall; he may have been the Zachary Cocke baptized at St Andrew's, Plymouth, on 27 December 1618. Coke was admitted to Gray's Inn on 28 December 1649. Nothing further is known of his life. His book, ...

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Cover Dworkin, Ronald Myles (1931–2013)

Dworkin, Ronald Myles (1931–2013)  

Maker: Terence Spencer

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Dworkin, Ronald Myles (1931–2013), legal and political philosopher  

Stephen Guest and Jeffrey Jowell

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Dworkin, Ronald Myles (1931–2013), legal and political philosopher, was born on 11 December 1931 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, the elder son of David Dworkin (1896–1969), curtain manufacturer, and his wife, Madeline, née Taber (1905–1988), both of Russian Jewish descent, his father an immigrant from ...

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Cover Molyneux, William (1656–1698)

Molyneux, William (1656–1698)  

Maker: Sir Godfrey Kneller

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William Molyneux (1656–1698) attrib. Sir Godfrey Kneller, c. 1696 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Molyneux, William (1656–1698), experimental philosopher and constitutional writer  

James G. O'Hara

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Molyneux, William (1656–1698), experimental philosopher and constitutional writer, was born in Dublin, near Ormond Gate, on 17 April 1656, the second of five children of Samuel Molyneux (1616–1693), lawyer and landowner, and his wife, Anne, née Dowdall. His great-grandfather Thomas Molyneux (1531–1597) came from the English colony in ...

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Pappworth [formerly Papperovitch], Maurice Henry (1910–1994), medical ethicist and educationist  

Stephen Lock

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Pappworth [formerly Papperovitch], Maurice Henry (1910–1994), medical ethicist and educationist, was born on 9 January 1910 at 27 Pleasant Street, Liverpool, the second child in the family of three sons and six daughters of (Isaac) Jacob Papperovitch (d. 1960), master tailor, who changed his name to ...

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Strode, Ralph (d. 1387), scholastic philosopher and lawyer  

J. D. North

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Strode, Ralph (d. 1387), scholastic philosopher and lawyer, is of unknown origins. His name is first found in the records for 1359 and 1360 of Merton College, Oxford (a college predominantly but not entirely of southerners), where he was then fellow. The bursar's roll for 1361 is missing, and he might still have been a fellow then. He had evidently become acquainted with ...

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Webb, Thomas Ebenezer (1821–1903), philosopher, barrister, and literary critic  

R. Y. Tyrrell

revised by C. A. Creffield

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Webb, Thomas Ebenezer (1821–1903), philosopher, barrister, and literary critic, was born in Portscatho, Cornwall, on or about 8 May 1821. He was eldest of the twelve children of the Revd Thomas Webb, a Methodist minister who owned a small estate in Cornwall, and his wife, ...