John Neville Figgis

John Neville Figgis CR (1866–1919) was an English historian, political philosopher, and Anglican priest and monk of the Community of the Resurrection. He was born in Brighton on 2 October 1866.[1] Educated at Brighton College and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, he was a student of Lord Acton at Cambridge, and editor of much of Acton's work.

The Reverend

John Neville Figgis

CR
Born(1866-10-02)2 October 1866
Brighton, England
Died13 April 1919(1919-04-13) (aged 52)
Virginia Water, England
Other names
  • J. N. Figgis
  • Neville Figgis
Ecclesiastical career
ReligionChristianity (Anglican)
ChurchChurch of England[1]
Ordained
  • 1894 (deacon)
  • 1895 (priest)[1]
Scholarly background
Alma materSt Catharine's College, Cambridge
Influences
Scholarly work
Discipline
Sub-discipline
School or tradition
Influenced

He is remembered in relation to the history of ideas and concepts of the pluralist state. The latter he in some ways adapted from Otto von Gierke; his ideas were picked up by others, such as G. D. H. Cole and Harold Laski. Some of the books which belonged to Figgis form part of the Mirfield Collection which is housed in the University of York Special Collections.[10]

He was professed in the Community of the Resurrection at Mirfield in 1909. He died on 13 April 1919 in Virginia Water.[1]

Works

References

Footnotes
  1. Chapman 2004.
  2. Chapman 2004; Mead 2018, p. 251.
  3. Mead 2018, pp. 251–252.
  4. Hirst 1989, p. 10.
  5. Wilkinson, Alan (1998). "A Forgotten Monk of St Catharine's: John Neville Figgis CR (1866–1919)" (PDF). St Catharine's College Society Magazine. Cambridge, England: St Catharine's College Society. p. 22. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  6. Grimley 2004, p. 65.
  7. Goldie 1994, p. 189.
  8. Boldt 2018, pp. 144, 188–189, 192.
  9. Richardson, Paul (8 May 2008). "A Higher Responsibility". London: Archbishop of Canterbury. Archived from the original on 18 December 2008. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  10. Antoniou, Marios (6 April 2018). "Rare Books and Religious History – Discovering the Mirfield Collection". Inspiring Minds. York, England: University of York. Retrieved 26 December 2019.

Bibliography
  • Boldt, Jeffrey (2018). From Butler to Thornton: A Typology of Conflicting Readings of the Two Books of Scripture and Nature in the Church of England from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century (ThD thesis). Toronto: University of Toronto. hdl:1807/90365.
  • Chapman, Mark D. (2004). "Figgis, (John) Neville (1866–1919)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33126.
  • Goldie, Mark (1994). "J. N. Figgis and the History of Political Thought in Cambridge". In Mason, Richard (ed.). Cambridge Minds. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. pp. 177–192. ISBN 978-0-521-45625-8. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  • Grimley, Matthew (2004). Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England: Liberal Anglican Theories of the State Between the Wars. Oxford: Clarendon Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199270897.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-927089-7.
  • Hirst, Paul Q., ed. (1989). "Introduction" (PDF). The Pluralist Theory of the State: Selected Writings of G. D. H. Cole, J. N. Figgis, and H. J. Laski. London: Routledge (published 2005). pp. 1–46. ISBN 978-0-203-98600-4. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  • Mead, Henry (2018). "A Conservative Ethic: A. R. Orage and T. E. Hulme, 1908–1916". In Carle, Naomi; Shaw, Samuel; Shaw, Sarah (eds.). Edwardian Culture: Beyond the Garden Party. New York: Routledge. pp. 236–260. doi:10.4324/9781315146843. ISBN 978-1-315-14684-3.

Further reading
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Preceded by
Howard Masterman		 Hulsean Lecturer
1908		 Succeeded by
W. Edward Chadwick


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