Bosanquet

BERNARD BOSANQUET (1848 - 1923)

Bosanquet was born at Rock Hall near Alnwick. The Bosanquet arms may be seen in the house, which is now a picturesque youth hostel. Along with F.H. Bradley, Bosanquet was a notable member of the British school of idealist philosophers who followed Hegel. A man of great charm and courtesy, Bosanquet taught at Oxford (1871--81) and St Andrews (1903-08). His main philosophical works include Knowledge and Reality (1885), Logic (1888), The Philosophical Theory of the State (1899) and The Principle of Individuality and Value (1912).

Robert Carr Bosanquet (1871-1935), the nephew of Bernard Bosanquet, was born in London. After Cambridge, Bosanquet excavated at Housesteads on the Roman Wall in 1898 and published the results in Archaeologia Aeliana, Vol XXV, 1904. Bosanquet married the daughter of Thomas Hodgkin (q.v.) in 1902. He spent much time in Greece, and was professor at Liverpool until 1920, when he resigned to spend the rest of his life in a cottage on the Rock Hall estate (which he inherited), gathering material for works on Roman trade routes, and on the Covenanters in Northumberland.

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BERNARD BOSANQUET (1848 - 1923) Bosanquet was born at Rock Hall near Alnwick. The Bosanquet arms may be seen in the house, which is now a picturesque youth hostel. Along with F.H. Bradley, Bosanquet was a notable member of the British school of idealist philosophers who followed Hegel. A man of great charm and courtesy, Bosanquet taught at Oxford (1871--81) and St Andrews (1903-08). His main philosophical works include Knowledge and Reality (1885), Logic (1888), The Philosophical Theory of the State (1899) and The Principle of Individuality and Value (1912). Robert Carr Bosanquet (1871-1935), the nephew of Bernard Bosanquet, was born in London. After Cambridge, Bosanquet excavated at Housesteads on the Roman Wall in 1898 and published the results in Archaeologia Aeliana, Vol XXV, 1904. Bosanquet married the daughter of Thomas Hodgkin (q.v.) in 1902. He spent much time in Greece, and was professor at Liverpool until 1920, when he resigned to spend the rest of his life in a cottage on the Rock Hall estate (which he inherited), gathering material for works on Roman trade routes, and on the Covenanters in Northumberland.
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