biography
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| lived:
| (1838–1900)
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| biography:
| Philosopher, born in Skipton, North Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, where he became a fellow of Trinity College (1859) and professor of moral philosophy (1883). His best-known work, Methods of Ethics (1874), develops the utilitarian theories of John Stuart Mill. He was also active in promoting higher education for women, notably in the founding of Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1880. His wife, Eleanor Balfour (the sister of A J Balfour), was its principal from 1892 to 1910. In 1882 he was a founder and the first president of the Society for Psychical Research. |
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