English philosophical writer, born at Burton Stather, Lincolnshire, on the 1st of September 1832; graduated at Merton College, Oxford, in 1854; elected to a fellowship in Lincoln College in 1855, and became professor of logic in the university in 1873, holding the position until 1879. He was elected president of Corpus Christi College in 1881; and next year received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Edinburgh. He was the author of Elements of Deductive Logic (9th ed., 1887); Elements of Inductive Logic (6th ed., 1892); Progressive Morality (1884); The Principles of Morals (1886, 1887); and of biographies of Locke, Bacon, Shaftesbury and Hutcheson; and History of Corpus Christi College (1893). He contributed the articles Hutcheson and Shaftesbury to this Encyclopædia.
