English philosopher, born at Rock, near Alnwick, on the 14th of June 1848. Educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford, he was for ten years a lecturer at University College, Oxford (1871–81). In 1881 he came to London, and until 1897 engaged in lecturing and social work. He married in 1895 Helen Dendy, herself the author of books on social problems. During 1903–8 he was professor of moral philosophy at St. Andrew’s University. He became a fellow of the British Academy. He was a Hegelian in philosophy and a disciple of T. H. Green.
Amongst his published works are Knowledge and Reality (1885); Logic, or the Morphology of Knowledge (1888); Essentials of Logic (1895); Psychology of the Moral Self (1897); Principles of Individuality (1911); What Religion Is (1920) as well as translations of Hegel and Lotze. See also “The True Conception of Another World.”
