English philosopher, born at Boston, Lincolnshire, on the 25th of December 1832. Educated at Rugby and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he devoted himself from 1858 onwards entirely to the study of philosophy. He helped to found the Aristotelian Society of London in 1880, and was its first president. His published works include Time and Space (1870); The Philosophy of Reflection (1878) and a complete exposition of his philosophy in The Metaphysic of Experience (1898). He died in London on the 13th of June 1912.
