Bell [née Olliffe], Florence Eveleen Eleanore, Lady Bell (1851–1930), author, social investigator, and playwright, was born on 9 September 1851 at 2 rue St Florentin, Paris, the youngest of the four children of Sir Joseph Olliffe (1808–1869), physician to the British embassy in ...
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Bell [née Olliffe], Florence Eveleen Eleanore, Lady Bell (1851–1930), author, social investigator, and playwright
Angela V. John
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Booth, Charles (1840–1916), shipowner and social investigator
Jose Harris
Booth, Charles (1840–1916), shipowner and social investigator, was born on 30 March 1840 at 27 Bedford North Street, Liverpool. He was the third son of Charles Booth (1799–1860), a prosperous corn merchant, and his first wife, Emily Fletcher (1803–1853). Both his parents were Unitarians, and had wide connections among the commercial, dissenting, and philanthropic ‘aristocracy’ of ...
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Bosanquet, Bernard (1848–1923), philosopher and social theorist
A. M. McBriar
Bosanquet, Bernard (1848–1923), philosopher and social theorist, was born on 14 June 1848 at Rock Hall, near Alnwick, the youngest of five sons of the Revd Robert William Bosanquet (1800–1880), of Rock, Northumberland, and formerly rector of Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, son of Charles Bosanquet (1769–1850)...
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Bosanquet [née Dendy], Helen (1860–1925), social theorist and social reformer
Jose Harris
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Bosanquet [née Dendy], Helen (1860–1925), social theorist and social reformer, was born in Manchester on 10 February 1860. She was the youngest daughter and the fifth child in the family of five sons and four daughters of the Revd John Dendy, who had been a nonconformist minister, and then became a businessman in ...
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Chamberlain, Houston Stewart (1855–1927), racialist writer
Michael Biddiss
Chamberlain, Houston Stewart (1855–1927), racialist writer, was born on 9 September 1855 in Southsea, the last of the four children (one daughter and three sons) of Rear-Admiral William Charles Chamberlain (1818–1878), and his first wife, Eliza Jane (1825?–1856?), daughter of Captain Basil Hall RN...
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Dahrendorf, Ralf Gustav, Baron Dahrendorf (1929–2009), sociologist, politician, and university administrator
Colin Crouch
Dahrendorf, Ralf Gustav, Baron Dahrendorf (1929–2009), sociologist, politician, and university administrator, was born on 1 May 1929 in Hamburg, the older son of Gustav Dietrich Dahrendorf (1901–1954), politician and company director, and his wife, Lina, née Witt (d. 1980).
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Floud [née McDonald], Jean Esther (1915–2013), sociologist
Stephen J. Ball
Floud [née McDonald], Jean Esther (1915–2013), sociologist, was born on 3 November 1915 at 496 London Road, Westcliff on Sea, Essex, the only daughter of Ernest Walter McDonald, cobbler and shoe salesman, and his wife, Annie Louisa, née Watson. She attended local primary and secondary schools, and when her family moved to ...
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Geddes, Sir Patrick (1854–1932), social evolutionist and city planner
Helen Meller
Geddes, Sir Patrick (1854–1932), social evolutionist and city planner, was born at Ballater, west Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on 2 October 1854, the youngest son of Alexander Geddes (1808–1899), and his wife, Janet Stivenson. His father was a quartermaster in the Black Watch; his mother came from a family of strict Presbyterian covenanters....
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Gellner, Ernest André (1925–1995), social philosopher and anthropologist
Steven Lukes
Gellner, Ernest André (1925–1995), social philosopher and anthropologist, was born on 9 December 1925 in Paris, the elder of two children of Jewish parents, Rudolf Gellner (1897–1987), a lawyer, and his wife, Anna, née Fantl (1894–1954), both from Czechoslovakia. The family returned to ...
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Ginsberg, Morris (1889–1970), sociologist and philosopher
A. H. Halsey
Ginsberg, Morris (1889–1970), sociologist and philosopher, was born in Lithuania on 14 May 1889, the son of Meyer Ginsberg, tobacco manufacturer. He migrated to Britain, where he attracted attention as a talented undergraduate while reading philosophy at University College, London (UCL), which he entered in 1910. Such a migration was common enough at that time but, as ...
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Hall, Stuart McPhail (1932–2014), cultural theorist and political commentator
Martin Jacques
Hall, Stuart McPhail (1932–2014), cultural theorist and political commentator, was born on 3 February 1932 in Kingston, Jamaica, the son of Herman McPhail Hall, accountant, and his wife, Jessie. He was of mixed African, Scottish, and Portuguese descent. He had a brother and sister, both of whom were older than him....
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Hills, Sir John Robert (1954–2020), social scientist
Tania Burchardt
Hills, Sir John Robert (1954–2020), social scientist, was born at Luton maternity hospital on 29 July 1954, the third of four children of Derrick Walter Hills (1920–1978) and his wife Valerie Jean, née Gribble (1924–2010), then of 91 Chiltern Road, Dunstable...
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Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawny (1864–1929), social philosopher and journalist
Michael Freeden
Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawny (1864–1929), social philosopher and journalist, was born on 8 September 1864 at St Ive, near Liskeard, Cornwall, the youngest of the seven children of the Revd Reginald Hobhouse (1818–1895), rector of St Ive for fifty years and archdeacon of Bodmin...
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Hobson, John Atkinson (1858–1940), social theorist and economist
Michael Freeden
Hobson, John Atkinson (1858–1940), social theorist and economist, was born on 6 July 1858 at Iron Gate, Derby, the second son of William Hobson (1825–1897), founder, editor, and part proprietor of the Derbyshire Advertiser and twice mayor of Derby, and his wife, Josephine Atkinson...
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Hoggart, (Herbert) Richard (1918–2014), writer and cultural critic
Stefan Collini
Hoggart, (Herbert) Richard (1918–2014), writer and cultural critic, was born on 24 September 1918 at the maternity hospital in Leeds, the second son of Tom Longfellow Hoggart (1880–1922), a journeyman house-painter and infantryman, and his wife Adeline Emma (...
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Kidd, Benjamin (1858–1916), sociologist
D. P. Crook
Kidd, Benjamin (1858–1916), sociologist, was born on 9 September 1858 near Bandon, co. Cork, the first of eleven children of Benjamin Kidd (c.1831–1914), constable in the Royal Irish Constabulary, and his wife, Mary Rebecca (1833–1916), daughter of John Dawson, landowner of ...
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Madge, Charles Henry (1912–1996), poet and sociologist
A. H. Halsey
Madge, Charles Henry (1912–1996), poet and sociologist, was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 10 October 1912, the son of Charles Albert Madge (d. 1916), army officer, and his wife, Barbara, née Hylton Foster. His father, temporary lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Warwickshire regiment...
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Mannheim, Karl [Károly] (1893–1947), sociologist
Geoff Whitty
Mannheim, Karl [Károly] (1893–1947), sociologist, was born on 27 March 1893 at 19 Sas Street in Budapest, Hungary, the eldest child of Gusztáv Mannheim, a textile merchant, and Rosa Eylenburg. His father was Hungarian-Jewish and his mother German-Jewish. After attending a Gymnasium Mannheim...
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Marshall, Thomas Humphrey (1893–1981), sociologist
A. H. Halsey
Marshall, Thomas Humphrey (1893–1981), sociologist, was born in fashionable Bloomsbury, in London, on 19 December 1893. He was the second son and the fourth of six children of a successful architect, William Cecil Marshall, and his wife, Margaret, the daughter of Archdeacon J. F. Lloyd...
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Mumford [née McFarland], Enid Mary (1924–2006), social scientist
Frank Land
Mumford [née McFarland], Enid Mary (1924–2006), social scientist, was born on 6 March 1924 at Iona, Groveland Avenue, Wallasey, Cheshire, the daughter of Arthur McFarland (1893–1966), a hospital secretary, and later a prominent barrister and chief stipendary magistrate of Liverpool, and his wife, ...
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