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BEESLY, EDWARD SPENCER (1831– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 644 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEESLY, See also:EDWARD See also:SPENCER (1831– ) , See also:English historian and positivist, son of the Rev. See also:James Beesly, was See also:born at See also:Feckenham, See also:Worcestershire, on the 23rd of See also:January 1831. He was educated at Wadham See also:College, See also:Oxford, which may be regarded as the See also:original centre of the English positivist See also:movement. See also:Richard See also:Congreve (q.v.) was See also:tutor at Wadham from 1849 to 1854, and three men of that See also:time, See also:Frederic See also:Harrison (q.v.), Beesly and See also:John See also:Henry See also:Bridges (1832-1906), became the leaders of Comtism in See also:England. Beesly See also:left Oxford in 1854 to become assistant-See also:master at See also:Marlborough College. In 1859 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:history at University College, See also:London, and of Latin at See also:Bedford College, London, in 186o. He resigned these appointments in 1893 and 1889, and in 1893 became the editor of the newly-established Positivist See also:Review. He collaborated in the See also:translation of See also:Comte's See also:system of See also:Positive Polity (4 vols., 18751879), translated his Discourse on the Positive Spirit (1903), and wrote a See also:biography of Comte for a translation of the first two chapters of his Cours de philosophie positive, entitled Fundamental Principles of Positive See also:Philosophy (1905). Professor Beesly stood unsuccessfully as Liberal See also:candidate for See also:Westminster in 18235 and for Marylebone in 1886, and is the author of numerous review articles on social and See also:political topics, treated from the positivist standpoint, especially on the Irish question. His See also:works also include a See also:series of lectures on See also:Roman history, entitled See also:Catiline, See also:Clodius, Tiberius (1878), in which he rehabilitates in some degree the See also:character of each of his subjects, and See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth (1892), in the " Twelve English Statesmen " series.

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