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Fawcett, Henry, 1833-1884We have 1 book for this author.
 Henry Fawcett (1833 – 1884) was a blind English statesman and economist. He was born in Salisbury, and educated at the University of Cambridge, where he became Fellow of Trinity Hall. A statue of him stands in Salisbury Market Square. In 1858, when he was 25, he was blinded by a shooting accident, in spite of which he continued with his studies, especially in economics, and in 1863 published his Manual of Political Economy, becoming in the same year Professor of Political Economy in Cambridge. After repeated defeats he was elected member of Parliament (MP) for Brighton in 1865. He campaigned for women's suffrage, and through this he met Elizabeth Garrett whom he proposed in 1865. She rejected the proposal to concentrate on becoming a doctor at a time when women doctors were unheard of. Fawcett later married her younger sister Millicent Garrett in 1867.[1][2] In 1880 he was appointed Postmaster-General. He introduced many innovations, including parcel post, postal orders, and licensing changes to permit payphones and trunk lines. His career was, however, cut short by his premature death from pleurisy, but not before he had made himself a recognised authority on economics, his works on which include The Economic Position of the British Labourer (1871), Labour and Wages, etc. He was elected Rector of Glasgow University, 1883 Sir Leslie Stephen wrote a biography of him, Life of Henry Fawcett, in 1885. References
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This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton. This biographical information was gathered from the Henry_Fawcett page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project. BooksJohn Stuart Mill; His Life and Works Twelve Sketches by Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison, and Other Distinguished Authors |
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