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Stanley Jevons
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It is with great regret that we have to record the death of Professor Jevons. He was drowned in the sea between St. Leonard's and Bexhill on Sunday morning while bathing. He and his wife and family had been staying at Cliff House, Galleyhill, for the last five weeks, and their sojourn there was to have terminated today. The inquest was held at Bexhill on Monday afternoon before Mr. Charles Sheppard, the Coroner for the Rape of Hastings. It appeared that the deceased and Mrs. Jevons, with their children, were walking on the beach on Sunday morning. The Professor had a day or two before said he should like to bathe, but Mrs. Jevons begged him not to do so, as he had not been in good bodily health. He left them on the beach, and Mrs. Jevons thought he was going up to the house. She asked him to send the servant down, and the servant came shortly afterwards About an hour and a half afterwards Mrs. Jevons heard that a gentleman named Jevons was drowned. In her opinion he was not a man likely to commit suicide. He was, in fact, as happy as any one could be. William Sparks, a schoolteacher, gave evidence to the effect that shortly after 11 o'clock, four boys came to him on the cliff and said they thought the man was drowning. Running down to the beach, a witness saw a body floating about 40 yards out. It was going about like a cork, backwards and forwards. The tide was on the ebb and the body was gradually floating seaward. He went into the sea to try and get the body out but was unsuccessful. Witness thought that that spot was a dangerous one for bathers, especially at high water. It was indeed about the worst spot that one could select for bathing. Another witness said there was a nasty swell inshore but no breakers outside. It was a dangerous sea except to good swimmers. The body was recovered and taken to the Coastguard station close by. Wm. Haigh, at whose house the deceased was staying, said the Protessor was a good swimmer. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death by drowning.
The deceased, William Stanley Jevons, was the son of an iron merchant at Liverpool and was born there on September 1, 1833. His mother, who wrote poems and edited the "Sacred Offering," was the daughter of William Roscoe, the author of the well-known biographies of Lorenzo de Medici and Leo X. His early education was received at the High School of the Mechanics' Institute, Liverpool, under the rule of the late Dr. W. B. Hodgson. At the age of 16, he entered University College, London, and inmatriculated with honors in botany and chemistry From 1853 to 1858, or from his 18th to his 23rd year, he was an assayer at the Australian Royal Mint in Sydney, a post conferred upon him by Mr. Graham of the Mint in London. He gave up his leisure time for scientific pursuits, and the results of some thoughtful observations of the meteorology of the colony are embodied in his "Data concerning the Climate of Australia and New Zealand." Returning to England, he continued his studies at University College, won various distinctions, and took the degree of M.A. In 1866, after becoming a Fellow of his college, he was made Professor of Logic and Philosophy and Cobden Lecturer in Political Economy at Owen's College, Manchester. In the meantime, he had done much to establish his reputation as a thinker by publishing his treatises on the value of gold, the theory of political economy, pure logic or the logic of quality, and the coal question. The last of these works, which pointed to the conclusion that our coal supplies would eventually stop, cited many keen discussions, and a Royal Commission was appointed to investigate the question it raised. But it was not until after his connection with Owen's College was formed that Jevons did justice to himself. In 1869 he brought out his "Substitution of Similars the True Principle of Reasoning," and in 1870 the "Elementary Lessons in Logic." In 1871, the "Theory of Political Economy," in 1874, the "Principles of Science," and at a later period, "Money and the Mechanism of Exchange." In 1876, having been made Professor of Political Economy at University College, London, he relinquished his appointment at Owen's College. That year he gave up academic work altogether, in order to devote himself exclusively to literature. During the last ten years of his life he was made an F.R.S. and an LL.D. of Edinburgh. His chief works were the "Principles of Science," and the "Theory of Political Economy," which enclose his ripest theories on the fundamental doctrines of economics and logic. In the former, a system of logical inference similar to that of Boole is elaborated. Whatever may be thought of Professor Jevons's views, it is undeniable that his work is distinguished by far-reaching information, a firm grasp of the principles he sought to illustrate, and unusual vigour and closeness of reasoning. He did much to make the study of logic more popular, to relieve England from the reproach (uttered some years ago by Walter Bagehot) that "even the little attention once paid in this country to abstract economics is now diverted."
It is with great regret that we have to record the death of Professor Jevons. He was drowned in the sea between St. Leonard's and Bexhill on Sunday morning while bathing. He and his wife and family had been staying at Cliff House, Galleyhill, for the last five weeks, and their sojourn there was to have terminated today. The inquest was held at Bexhill on Monday afternoon before Mr. Charles Sheppard, the Coroner for the Rape of Hastings. It appeared that the deceased and Mrs. Jevons, with their children, were walking on the beach on Sunday morning. The Professor had a day or two before said he should like to bathe, but Mrs. Jevons begged him not to do so, as he had not been in good bodily health. He left them on the beach, and Mrs. Jevons thought he was going up to the house. She asked him to send the servant down, and the servant came shortly afterwards About an hour and a half afterwards Mrs. Jevons heard that a gentleman named Jevons was drowned. In her opinion he was not a man likely to commit suicide. He was, in fact, as happy as any one could be. William Sparks, a schoolteacher, gave evidence to the effect that shortly after 11 o'clock, four boys came to him on the cliff and said they thought the man was drowning. Running down to the beach, a witness saw a body floating about 40 yards out. It was going about like a cork, backwards and forwards. The tide was on the ebb and the body was gradually floating seaward. He went into the sea to try and get the body out but was unsuccessful. Witness thought that that spot was a dangerous one for bathers, especially at high water. It was indeed about the worst spot that one could select for bathing. Another witness said there was a nasty swell inshore but no breakers outside. It was a dangerous sea except to good swimmers. The body was recovered and taken to the Coastguard station close by. Wm. Haigh, at whose house the deceased was staying, said the Protessor was a good swimmer. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death by drowning.
The deceased, William Stanley Jevons, was the son of an iron merchant at Liverpool and was born there on September 1, 1833. His mother, who wrote poems and edited the "Sacred Offering," was the daughter of William Roscoe, the author of the well-known biographies of Lorenzo de Medici and Leo X. His early education was received at the High School of the Mechanics' Institute, Liverpool, under the rule of the late Dr. W. B. Hodgson. At the age of 16, he entered University College, London, and inmatriculated with honors in botany and chemistry From 1853 to 1858, or from his 18th to his 23rd year, he was an assayer at the Australian Royal Mint in Sydney, a post conferred upon him by Mr. Graham of the Mint in London. He gave up his leisure time for scientific pursuits, and the results of some thoughtful observations of the meteorology of the colony are embodied in his "Data concerning the Climate of Australia and New Zealand." Returning to England, he continued his studies at University College, won various distinctions, and took the degree of M.A. In 1866, after becoming a Fellow of his college, he was made Professor of Logic and Philosophy and Cobden Lecturer in Political Economy at Owen's College, Manchester. In the meantime, he had done much to establish his reputation as a thinker by publishing his treatises on the value of gold, the theory of political economy, pure logic or the logic of quality, and the coal question. The last of these works, which pointed to the conclusion that our coal supplies would eventually stop, cited many keen discussions, and a Royal Commission was appointed to investigate the question it raised. But it was not until after his connection with Owen's College was formed that Jevons did justice to himself. In 1869 he brought out his "Substitution of Similars the True Principle of Reasoning," and in 1870 the "Elementary Lessons in Logic." In 1871, the "Theory of Political Economy," in 1874, the "Principles of Science," and at a later period, "Money and the Mechanism of Exchange." In 1876, having been made Professor of Political Economy at University College, London, he relinquished his appointment at Owen's College. That year he gave up academic work altogether, in order to devote himself exclusively to literature. During the last ten years of his life he was made an F.R.S. and an LL.D. of Edinburgh. His chief works were the "Principles of Science," and the "Theory of Political Economy," which enclose his ripest theories on the fundamental doctrines of economics and logic. In the former, a system of logical inference similar to that of Boole is elaborated. Whatever may be thought of Professor Jevons's views, it is undeniable that his work is distinguished by far-reaching information, a firm grasp of the principles he sought to illustrate, and unusual vigour and closeness of reasoning. He did much to make the study of logic more popular, to relieve England from the reproach (uttered some years ago by Walter Bagehot) that "even the little attention once paid in this country to abstract economics is now diverted."
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