Peter Hinchliff
- Published in print:
- 1987
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198266884
- eISBN:
- 9780191683091
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198266884.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
The conventional picture of Benjamin Jowett (1817–93) is of the outstanding educator, the famous master of Balliol College, Oxford, whose pupils were extremely influential in the public life of ...
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The conventional picture of Benjamin Jowett (1817–93) is of the outstanding educator, the famous master of Balliol College, Oxford, whose pupils were extremely influential in the public life of Britain in the second half of the 19th century. However, he is also recognized as a theologian since he contributed an essay titled ‘On the Interpretation of Scripture’ to Essays and Reviews, a collection published in 1860. The book's liberalism aroused great controversy, and it was eventually synodically condemned in 1864. It has been thought that having got into trouble over his essay, Jowett abandoned theology and became a purely secular figure. This book attempts to identify the ideas which caused Jowett to develop his theology, the thinkers who influenced him, and how his own religious ideas evolved. It argues that, after the Essays and Reviews controversy, he deliberately chose to disseminate those ideas through the college of which he became master. It also shows how he influenced other religious thinkers and theologians of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, arguing that he was more important in the history of English theology than is usually recognized.Less
The conventional picture of Benjamin Jowett (1817–93) is of the outstanding educator, the famous master of Balliol College, Oxford, whose pupils were extremely influential in the public life of Britain in the second half of the 19th century. However, he is also recognized as a theologian since he contributed an essay titled ‘On the Interpretation of Scripture’ to Essays and Reviews, a collection published in 1860. The book's liberalism aroused great controversy, and it was eventually synodically condemned in 1864. It has been thought that having got into trouble over his essay, Jowett abandoned theology and became a purely secular figure. This book attempts to identify the ideas which caused Jowett to develop his theology, the thinkers who influenced him, and how his own religious ideas evolved. It argues that, after the Essays and Reviews controversy, he deliberately chose to disseminate those ideas through the college of which he became master. It also shows how he influenced other religious thinkers and theologians of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, arguing that he was more important in the history of English theology than is usually recognized.
John Prest
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199510177
- eISBN:
- 9780191700972
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199510177.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
When Richard Jenkyns died in 1854, there were two candidates to succeed him, Benjamin Jowett and Robert Scott, and Scott won by a single vote. Scott shared the diehards’ view of the endowments of ...
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When Richard Jenkyns died in 1854, there were two candidates to succeed him, Benjamin Jowett and Robert Scott, and Scott won by a single vote. Scott shared the diehards’ view of the endowments of Oxford University and the colleges as private property, belonging to the Church. He disapproved of the reform, and his rule began with a clumsy and unsuccessful attempt to frustrate the will of Parliament and reimpose a religious test. Scott was, as Jowett said, ‘a very good and conscientious man, but narrow’. For twelve years the Master was able, with the help of Edward Woollcombe, the senior fellow, and Henry Wall, one of the two Bursars, to retain a majority in meetings of the governing body. But elections to fellowships gradually changed the outlook of the college — that of T. H. Green in 1861 especially — and in 1866 Scott lost control to Jowett. Analysis of the composition of Balliol College in the decade 1854–63 shows that, for all the new building carried out in Jenkyns’s time, it was still very small.Less
When Richard Jenkyns died in 1854, there were two candidates to succeed him, Benjamin Jowett and Robert Scott, and Scott won by a single vote. Scott shared the diehards’ view of the endowments of Oxford University and the colleges as private property, belonging to the Church. He disapproved of the reform, and his rule began with a clumsy and unsuccessful attempt to frustrate the will of Parliament and reimpose a religious test. Scott was, as Jowett said, ‘a very good and conscientious man, but narrow’. For twelve years the Master was able, with the help of Edward Woollcombe, the senior fellow, and Henry Wall, one of the two Bursars, to retain a majority in meetings of the governing body. But elections to fellowships gradually changed the outlook of the college — that of T. H. Green in 1861 especially — and in 1866 Scott lost control to Jowett. Analysis of the composition of Balliol College in the decade 1854–63 shows that, for all the new building carried out in Jenkyns’s time, it was still very small.
M. G. Brock
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199510177
- eISBN:
- 9780191700972
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199510177.003.0031
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Raymond Asquith came up to Balliol College as a scholar in 1897 and held an All Souls fellowship from 1903 to 1910. His father, who had also been a Balliol scholar, became Prime Minister in April ...
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Raymond Asquith came up to Balliol College as a scholar in 1897 and held an All Souls fellowship from 1903 to 1910. His father, who had also been a Balliol scholar, became Prime Minister in April 1908. Willie Elmhirst was a commoner at Worcester from 1911 to 1914. The diary which he kept during his freshman year came to light in 1967 and was published two years later. Both joined the colours in December 1914; and before the Battle of the Somme was over both had been killed in action — Asquith at Ginchy on September 15, 1916, as British tanks went into action for the first time, Elmhirst a few miles north-west of that at Serre, on November 13 during the battle's last phase. Both men came from the professional class and had been public school boarders. Asquith had started his career in Balliol, Oxford University's most powerful college; Elmhirst was a commoner of Worcester College, then one of its smallest and poorest.Less
Raymond Asquith came up to Balliol College as a scholar in 1897 and held an All Souls fellowship from 1903 to 1910. His father, who had also been a Balliol scholar, became Prime Minister in April 1908. Willie Elmhirst was a commoner at Worcester from 1911 to 1914. The diary which he kept during his freshman year came to light in 1967 and was published two years later. Both joined the colours in December 1914; and before the Battle of the Somme was over both had been killed in action — Asquith at Ginchy on September 15, 1916, as British tanks went into action for the first time, Elmhirst a few miles north-west of that at Serre, on November 13 during the battle's last phase. Both men came from the professional class and had been public school boarders. Asquith had started his career in Balliol, Oxford University's most powerful college; Elmhirst was a commoner of Worcester College, then one of its smallest and poorest.
Peter Hinchliff
- Published in print:
- 1987
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198266884
- eISBN:
- 9780191683091
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198266884.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
Benjamin Jowett was born in Camberwell on 15 April 1817. He was the son of a small businessman and was educated at St Paul's School. He entered Balliol as a scholar in October 1836, and spent ...
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Benjamin Jowett was born in Camberwell on 15 April 1817. He was the son of a small businessman and was educated at St Paul's School. He entered Balliol as a scholar in October 1836, and spent virtually the whole of the rest of his life in the college, of which he became master in 1870. One of the recurring themes of Jowett's life was his belief that the reform of the university was a religious or theological necessity as well as a practical one. He is chiefly remembered as an academic who was anxious to raise intellectual standards. But that was only one aspect of his concern for reform: the religious aspect was just as important to him. For him and his opponents, indeed, the two were inextricably linked.Less
Benjamin Jowett was born in Camberwell on 15 April 1817. He was the son of a small businessman and was educated at St Paul's School. He entered Balliol as a scholar in October 1836, and spent virtually the whole of the rest of his life in the college, of which he became master in 1870. One of the recurring themes of Jowett's life was his belief that the reform of the university was a religious or theological necessity as well as a practical one. He is chiefly remembered as an academic who was anxious to raise intellectual standards. But that was only one aspect of his concern for reform: the religious aspect was just as important to him. For him and his opponents, indeed, the two were inextricably linked.
Peter Hinchliff
- Published in print:
- 1987
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198266884
- eISBN:
- 9780191683091
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198266884.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
Jowett was finally elected master of Balliol in September 1870, just ten years after the publication of Essays and Reviews. After he became master he preached regularly, twice each term in the ...
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Jowett was finally elected master of Balliol in September 1870, just ten years after the publication of Essays and Reviews. After he became master he preached regularly, twice each term in the college chapel. He had already set down in print somewhat ambitious views on the subject of the preacher's function in relation to the Bible. Some undergraduates seem to have regarded his preaching as honest and courageous, dealing with real life and practical things. Others dismissed him as lacking in passion, whether for good or evil. Jowett was in many ways at his best as a preacher and that particular medium was probably also very well suited to his temperamental dislike of systems. Preaching enabled him to adopt a more occasional approach, tackling one issue at a time and not being forced to relate each to everything else he might want to say.Less
Jowett was finally elected master of Balliol in September 1870, just ten years after the publication of Essays and Reviews. After he became master he preached regularly, twice each term in the college chapel. He had already set down in print somewhat ambitious views on the subject of the preacher's function in relation to the Bible. Some undergraduates seem to have regarded his preaching as honest and courageous, dealing with real life and practical things. Others dismissed him as lacking in passion, whether for good or evil. Jowett was in many ways at his best as a preacher and that particular medium was probably also very well suited to his temperamental dislike of systems. Preaching enabled him to adopt a more occasional approach, tackling one issue at a time and not being forced to relate each to everything else he might want to say.
Peter Hinchliff
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198263869
- eISBN:
- 9780191682667
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198263869.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
This book is a biography of Frederick Temple, who was an eminent, 19th-century figure and father of William Temple who was Archbishop of Canterbury during the Second ...
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This book is a biography of Frederick Temple, who was an eminent, 19th-century figure and father of William Temple who was Archbishop of Canterbury during the Second World War. Born on a Greek island, of middle-class but impoverished parents, he was educated at Balliol College on a scholarship, became principal of a college which trained teachers for pauper children, and then headmaster of Rugby. He was Bishop successively of Exeter and London before finally becoming Archbishop of Canterbury at the age of 76 in 1897. In the realm of education he could be considered the real designer of the Oxford and Cambridge Examination Board in the 1850s. He was a contributor to the first of the ‘scandalous’ volumes of liberal theology, Essays and Reviews in 1860. He was Secretary of the Taunton Commission on grammar school education in 1868 and gave the Bampton lectures of 1884 on science and religion which made the theory of evolution respectable. As Bishop of London he attempted to mediate in the London dock strike of 1889. He was responsible for the final form of the Archbishops’ reply to the Pope’s encyclical on Anglican orders. He presided over the ‘Archbishops’ Headings’ on certain ritual practices in the ‘Church Crisis’ at the end of the century. He was much involved in Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations and crowned Edward VII. He collapsed in the House of Lords after speaking in the debate on the education bill of 1902 and died soon afterwards.Less
This book is a biography of Frederick Temple, who was an eminent, 19th-century figure and father of William Temple who was Archbishop of Canterbury during the Second World War. Born on a Greek island, of middle-class but impoverished parents, he was educated at Balliol College on a scholarship, became principal of a college which trained teachers for pauper children, and then headmaster of Rugby. He was Bishop successively of Exeter and London before finally becoming Archbishop of Canterbury at the age of 76 in 1897. In the realm of education he could be considered the real designer of the Oxford and Cambridge Examination Board in the 1850s. He was a contributor to the first of the ‘scandalous’ volumes of liberal theology, Essays and Reviews in 1860. He was Secretary of the Taunton Commission on grammar school education in 1868 and gave the Bampton lectures of 1884 on science and religion which made the theory of evolution respectable. As Bishop of London he attempted to mediate in the London dock strike of 1889. He was responsible for the final form of the Archbishops’ reply to the Pope’s encyclical on Anglican orders. He presided over the ‘Archbishops’ Headings’ on certain ritual practices in the ‘Church Crisis’ at the end of the century. He was much involved in Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations and crowned Edward VII. He collapsed in the House of Lords after speaking in the debate on the education bill of 1902 and died soon afterwards.
Stephen E. Lahey
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195183313
- eISBN:
- 9780199870349
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195183313.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
This chapter provides the basic biographical material necessary to understand the course of Wyclif’s life. The first section traces Wyclif’s career at Oxford University, specifically at Merton and ...
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This chapter provides the basic biographical material necessary to understand the course of Wyclif’s life. The first section traces Wyclif’s career at Oxford University, specifically at Merton and Balliol Colleges. Wyclif was a prolific writer, and while establishing a precise chronology for his works as they have come down to us is difficult, given his apparently extensive re-editing of his works, the chapter describes the organization of his two major philosophical collections, the Summa de Ente and the Summa Theologie. The second section surveys Wyclif’s career in the service of the Duke of Lancaster, his subsequent dismissal from Oxford University, and his ongoing disputes with Bishop William Courtenay of London. During his final years in exile in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, Wyclif produced a significant body of writing, ranging from exegesis to polemics, remaining active in his criticisms of the ecclesiastical status quo.Less
This chapter provides the basic biographical material necessary to understand the course of Wyclif’s life. The first section traces Wyclif’s career at Oxford University, specifically at Merton and Balliol Colleges. Wyclif was a prolific writer, and while establishing a precise chronology for his works as they have come down to us is difficult, given his apparently extensive re-editing of his works, the chapter describes the organization of his two major philosophical collections, the Summa de Ente and the Summa Theologie. The second section surveys Wyclif’s career in the service of the Duke of Lancaster, his subsequent dismissal from Oxford University, and his ongoing disputes with Bishop William Courtenay of London. During his final years in exile in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, Wyclif produced a significant body of writing, ranging from exegesis to polemics, remaining active in his criticisms of the ecclesiastical status quo.
Richard Symonds
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203001
- eISBN:
- 9780191675645
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203001.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter examines University of Oxford graduates who have served the British Empire in various positions overseas. During the period from 1874 to 1913 Balliol College had the most number of ...
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This chapter examines University of Oxford graduates who have served the British Empire in various positions overseas. During the period from 1874 to 1913 Balliol College had the most number of matriculates who worked for at least two years in the Empire followed by Corpus, Keble, and St. John's. The Indian Civil Service (ICS) was the top employer until 1918 but after that it was replaced by the Colonial Service. The top three professions for Oxford graduates who served the Empire were government services, missionary work, and education.Less
This chapter examines University of Oxford graduates who have served the British Empire in various positions overseas. During the period from 1874 to 1913 Balliol College had the most number of matriculates who worked for at least two years in the Empire followed by Corpus, Keble, and St. John's. The Indian Civil Service (ICS) was the top employer until 1918 but after that it was replaced by the Colonial Service. The top three professions for Oxford graduates who served the Empire were government services, missionary work, and education.
PETER HINCHLIFF
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198263869
- eISBN:
- 9780191682667
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198263869.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
This chapter traces the development of Temple’s notions about education. At Balliol College he taught mathematics, though he was not a tutor. He became ...
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This chapter traces the development of Temple’s notions about education. At Balliol College he taught mathematics, though he was not a tutor. He became involved in the pastoral and spiritual development of junior members, and became interested in educational issues outside the college and university. His developing notion of what education ought to be seems partly to have been influenced by the experimental school at King’s Somborne in Hampshire, set up by local incumbent, Richard Dawes.Less
This chapter traces the development of Temple’s notions about education. At Balliol College he taught mathematics, though he was not a tutor. He became involved in the pastoral and spiritual development of junior members, and became interested in educational issues outside the college and university. His developing notion of what education ought to be seems partly to have been influenced by the experimental school at King’s Somborne in Hampshire, set up by local incumbent, Richard Dawes.
Donald Pennington
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263501
- eISBN:
- 9780191734212
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263501.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
John Edward Christopher Hill (1912–2003), a Fellow of the British Academy, was a great historian. Nearly all his huge output was on the seventeenth-century ‘English Revolution’ and its origins. It ...
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John Edward Christopher Hill (1912–2003), a Fellow of the British Academy, was a great historian. Nearly all his huge output was on the seventeenth-century ‘English Revolution’ and its origins. It was claimed that his Marxism, even when mellowed, led him to ignore evidence that did not support it. In 1936, Hill became an assistant lecturer at Cardiff University. Two years later, he returned to Balliol College at the University of Oxford as fellow and tutor in history. In 1956, he released his first major book, Economic Problems of the Church: from Archbishop Whitgift to the Long Parliament. Hill also found himself at the centre of communist politics in Britain, when the Historians’ Group led the movement to end the Communist Party’s obedience to Moscow. Besides the disputes with historians, Hill’s devotion to poetry had brought him into conflict with literary critics. Hill is cautious in his assessments of John Milton’s relations with radicalism. Hill’s sympathy for the downtrodden and unsuccessful was an unchanging part of his historical and his practical beliefs.Less
John Edward Christopher Hill (1912–2003), a Fellow of the British Academy, was a great historian. Nearly all his huge output was on the seventeenth-century ‘English Revolution’ and its origins. It was claimed that his Marxism, even when mellowed, led him to ignore evidence that did not support it. In 1936, Hill became an assistant lecturer at Cardiff University. Two years later, he returned to Balliol College at the University of Oxford as fellow and tutor in history. In 1956, he released his first major book, Economic Problems of the Church: from Archbishop Whitgift to the Long Parliament. Hill also found himself at the centre of communist politics in Britain, when the Historians’ Group led the movement to end the Communist Party’s obedience to Moscow. Besides the disputes with historians, Hill’s devotion to poetry had brought him into conflict with literary critics. Hill is cautious in his assessments of John Milton’s relations with radicalism. Hill’s sympathy for the downtrodden and unsuccessful was an unchanging part of his historical and his practical beliefs.
Ruth Barton
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226551616
- eISBN:
- 9780226551753
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226551753.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter identifies the diverse cultural contexts that shaped the future members of the X Club: gentlemanly London science (Busk, Hooker and Lubbock), Balliol College, Oxford (Spottiswoode), ...
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This chapter identifies the diverse cultural contexts that shaped the future members of the X Club: gentlemanly London science (Busk, Hooker and Lubbock), Balliol College, Oxford (Spottiswoode), radical provincial Dissent (Spencer and Huxley), and the mechanics institutes and mutual improvement societies of the industrial north (Frankland, Tyndall and Hirst). The variety of their social backgrounds, scientific ambitions, and religious beliefs opens windows onto early Victorian science more generally. The future X-men included wealthy amateurs pursuing their scientific interests, medically trained men seeking to make reputations and careers in science, and social outsiders seeking to rise in the world through scientific employment. Most saw specialist expertise as the route to scientific recognition. They were all aware of the subtle distinctions of social status and religious belief that shaped Victorian life. Even scientific societies, it is shown, marked their status by the level of their fees. Religious skeptics were expected to constrain their conversation in polite society to avoid giving offence to orthodox believers. The changing religious beliefs of the nine are investigated: varieties of Anglicanism; reinterpretations of religion that rejected dogmatic formulations and associated “true” religion with deep feeling; the politics of Church reform and disestablishment.Less
This chapter identifies the diverse cultural contexts that shaped the future members of the X Club: gentlemanly London science (Busk, Hooker and Lubbock), Balliol College, Oxford (Spottiswoode), radical provincial Dissent (Spencer and Huxley), and the mechanics institutes and mutual improvement societies of the industrial north (Frankland, Tyndall and Hirst). The variety of their social backgrounds, scientific ambitions, and religious beliefs opens windows onto early Victorian science more generally. The future X-men included wealthy amateurs pursuing their scientific interests, medically trained men seeking to make reputations and careers in science, and social outsiders seeking to rise in the world through scientific employment. Most saw specialist expertise as the route to scientific recognition. They were all aware of the subtle distinctions of social status and religious belief that shaped Victorian life. Even scientific societies, it is shown, marked their status by the level of their fees. Religious skeptics were expected to constrain their conversation in polite society to avoid giving offence to orthodox believers. The changing religious beliefs of the nine are investigated: varieties of Anglicanism; reinterpretations of religion that rejected dogmatic formulations and associated “true” religion with deep feeling; the politics of Church reform and disestablishment.
Issac Levi
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264348
- eISBN:
- 9780191734250
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264348.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
Laurence Jonathan Cohen (1923–2006), a Fellow of the British Academy, was one of two sons of Israel Cohen and Theresa Jacobs. His parents were orthodox Jews who were active in the World Zionist ...
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Laurence Jonathan Cohen (1923–2006), a Fellow of the British Academy, was one of two sons of Israel Cohen and Theresa Jacobs. His parents were orthodox Jews who were active in the World Zionist Movement. Although Cohen gradually became less strict in his observance, he remained committed to his Jewish origins both in his private and his public life. He was educated at St Paul's School in London, where he excelled at mathematics and classics. Cohen went up to Balliol College, Oxford, in 1939 planning to read Greats. He served as Chair of the British Academy's Philosophy Section from 1993 to 1996. For several years after his official retirement, Cohen served as placement officer for the philosophy faculty at the University of Oxford. He offered a compelling case, holding that both in the natural sciences and in the law, one should accept a proposition if its Baconian probability is sufficiently high rather than the Pascalian probability. Cohen's central and original contributions are to the philosophy of inductive reasoning.Less
Laurence Jonathan Cohen (1923–2006), a Fellow of the British Academy, was one of two sons of Israel Cohen and Theresa Jacobs. His parents were orthodox Jews who were active in the World Zionist Movement. Although Cohen gradually became less strict in his observance, he remained committed to his Jewish origins both in his private and his public life. He was educated at St Paul's School in London, where he excelled at mathematics and classics. Cohen went up to Balliol College, Oxford, in 1939 planning to read Greats. He served as Chair of the British Academy's Philosophy Section from 1993 to 1996. For several years after his official retirement, Cohen served as placement officer for the philosophy faculty at the University of Oxford. He offered a compelling case, holding that both in the natural sciences and in the law, one should accept a proposition if its Baconian probability is sufficiently high rather than the Pascalian probability. Cohen's central and original contributions are to the philosophy of inductive reasoning.
Malcolm Budd
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263501
- eISBN:
- 9780191734212
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263501.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
Richard Arthur Wollheim (1923–2003), a Fellow of the British Academy, was an advocate of pacifism. Born in London to Eric Wollheim and Constance Baker, he went to Westminster School as a King’s ...
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Richard Arthur Wollheim (1923–2003), a Fellow of the British Academy, was an advocate of pacifism. Born in London to Eric Wollheim and Constance Baker, he went to Westminster School as a King’s Scholar at the age of thirteen and was influenced by Aldous Huxley’s Encyclopaedia of Pacifism. After volunteering for service during World War II, he returned to Balliol College at the University of Oxford in 1945, obtaining two first class BA degrees, one in History in 1946, the other in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1948. His first substantial piece of work, F. H. Bradley (1959), notable for the elegance and lucidity of its writing and its unrivalled mastery of Francis Herbert Bradley’s philosophy, was immediately recognised as the best book on its subject. Underlying his concern with social issues was one of the deepest commitments of Wollheim’s life, ‘devotion to the cause of socialism’, and it is in the final section of his Fabian Society pamphlet Socialism and Culture (1961) that his own conception of socialism becomes clear.Less
Richard Arthur Wollheim (1923–2003), a Fellow of the British Academy, was an advocate of pacifism. Born in London to Eric Wollheim and Constance Baker, he went to Westminster School as a King’s Scholar at the age of thirteen and was influenced by Aldous Huxley’s Encyclopaedia of Pacifism. After volunteering for service during World War II, he returned to Balliol College at the University of Oxford in 1945, obtaining two first class BA degrees, one in History in 1946, the other in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1948. His first substantial piece of work, F. H. Bradley (1959), notable for the elegance and lucidity of its writing and its unrivalled mastery of Francis Herbert Bradley’s philosophy, was immediately recognised as the best book on its subject. Underlying his concern with social issues was one of the deepest commitments of Wollheim’s life, ‘devotion to the cause of socialism’, and it is in the final section of his Fabian Society pamphlet Socialism and Culture (1961) that his own conception of socialism becomes clear.
Gareth Dale
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780231176088
- eISBN:
- 9780231541480
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231176088.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, History of Ideas
In which Polanyi battles with misery, and finds solace and inspiration in Christian-socialist circles, in traversing the USA, in Stalin's Russia, and in British culture.
In which Polanyi battles with misery, and finds solace and inspiration in Christian-socialist circles, in traversing the USA, in Stalin's Russia, and in British culture.
J. Lawrence Mitchell
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781474439657
- eISBN:
- 9781474453813
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439657.003.0015
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This article documents the longstanding and special bond of affection between Katherine Mansfield and her brother Leslie Heron Beauchamp (known as ‘Chummie’ and ‘Bogey’ by family) and the often ...
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This article documents the longstanding and special bond of affection between Katherine Mansfield and her brother Leslie Heron Beauchamp (known as ‘Chummie’ and ‘Bogey’ by family) and the often oblique but artful ways this bond is reflected in her stories. With the aid of War Office records, contemporary New Zealand newspaper reports, and Beauchamp family letters in the Alexander Turnbull Library, the essay specifically addresses hitherto unknown, yet biographically significant, issues concerning Leslie’s education, his social life and military training in England, and his accidental death in Flanders. In so doing, the essay thereby corrects some misapprehensions about Leslie and the nature and extent of Mansfield’s relationship with him.Less
This article documents the longstanding and special bond of affection between Katherine Mansfield and her brother Leslie Heron Beauchamp (known as ‘Chummie’ and ‘Bogey’ by family) and the often oblique but artful ways this bond is reflected in her stories. With the aid of War Office records, contemporary New Zealand newspaper reports, and Beauchamp family letters in the Alexander Turnbull Library, the essay specifically addresses hitherto unknown, yet biographically significant, issues concerning Leslie’s education, his social life and military training in England, and his accidental death in Flanders. In so doing, the essay thereby corrects some misapprehensions about Leslie and the nature and extent of Mansfield’s relationship with him.
