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RICHARD CONGREVE (1818-1899)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 938 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD See also:CONGREVE (1818-1899)  , See also:English Positivist, was See also:born at See also:Leamington on the 4th of See also:September 1818, and was educated at See also:Rugby under Dr See also:Arnold, who is said to have expressed a higher See also:opinion of him than of any other See also:pupil . After taking first-class honours at See also:Oxford and gaining a fellowship at Wadham See also:College, he spent some See also:time as a See also:master at Rugby, but returned to Oxford as a See also:tutor . Soon after the revolution of 1848 he visited See also:Paris, where he made the acquaintance of See also:Barthelemy St Hilaire and Auguste See also:Comte . He was so attracted by the See also:Positive See also:philosophy that he resigned his fellowship in 1855, and devoted the See also:remainder of his See also:life to the See also:propagation of the Positive philosophy . He took a leading See also:part in the See also:work carried on in See also:Chapel See also:Street, See also:Lamb's Conduit Street . In 1878 he declined to admit the authority of See also:Pierre See also:Laffitte, Comte's See also:official successor, and the result was a split in the ranks of English See also:Positivism, See also:Frederic See also:Harrison, Dr J . H . See also:Bridges and See also:Professor E . See also:Beesly forming a See also:separate society at See also:Newton See also:Hall, Fetter See also:Lane . See also:Congreve translated several of Comte's See also:works, and in 1874 published a large See also:volume of essays, in which he advocated Comte's view that it was the See also:duty of See also:Great See also:Britain to renounce her See also:foreign possessions . He was a See also:man of high See also:character, courtly See also:manners and great intellectual capacity . He died at See also:Hampstead on the 5th of See also:July 1899 .

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