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Myers Literary Guide:
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The North-East
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GEORGE FREDERICK STOUT (1860 - 1944) Stout was born in South Shields, the son of a ship broker, and attended the school of Charles Addison in Charlotte Terrace, just opposite the Town Hall. Addison was a fine classical scholar, but an eccentric of violent temper, who spurred Stout to go to Cambridge. There he developed an interest in philosophy, and in July 1888 he published an article on Herbartian psychology in Mind, the first of a series. Further articles made clear Stout's abiding interest, namely the nature of consciousness, of our knowledge of the material world and the relation between mind and matter. Under Stout's editorship Mind became Britain's leading philosophical journal, and two of his celebrated pupils at Cambridge were G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell. His Analytic Psychology (1896) placed him among the best British writers in the field, past or present. In 1896, Stout became the first Anderson lecturer in comparative psychology at Aberdeen, and his Manual of Psychology (2 vols. 1898-99) became a well-known textbook. Stout's later career took him to Oxford and St Andrews. He published his Studies in Philosophy and Psychology in 1930. He accompanied his son to Australia in 1936 and died there eight years later.
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