Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

RICHARD HOLT HUTTON (1826-1897)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 17 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

RICHARD See also:HOLT See also:HUTTON (1826-1897)  , See also:English writer and theologian, son of See also:Joseph See also:Hutton, Unitarian See also:minister at See also:Leeds, was See also:born at Leeds on the 2nd of See also:June 1826 . His See also:family removed to See also:London in 1835, and he was educated at University See also:College School and University College, where he began a lifelong friendship with'See also:Walter See also:Bagehot, of whose See also:works he afterwards was the editor; he took the degree in 1845, being awarded the See also:gold See also:medal for See also:philosophy . Meanwhile he had also studied for See also:short periods at See also:Heidelberg and See also:Berlin, and in 1847 he entered See also:Manchester New College with the See also:idea of becoming a minister like his See also:father, and studied there under See also:James See also:Martineau . He did not, however, succeed in obtaining a See also:call to any See also:church, and for some little See also:time his future was unsettled . He married in 1851 his See also:cousin, See also:Anne See also:Roscoe, and became See also:joint-editor with J . L . Sanford of the Inquirer, the See also:principal Unitarian See also:organ . But his innovations and his unconventional views about stereo-typed Unitarian doctrines caused alarm, and in 1853 he resigned . His See also:health had broken down, and he visited the See also:West Indies, where his wife died of yellow See also:fever . In 1855 Hutton and Bagehot became joint-editors of the See also:National See also:Review, a new monthly, and conducted it for ten years . During this time Hutton's theological views, influenced largely by See also:Coleridge, and morn directly by F . W .

See also:

Robertson and F . D . See also:Maurice, gradually approached more and more to those of the Church of See also:England, which he ultimately joined . His See also:interest in See also:theology was profound, and he brought to it a spirituality of outlook and an aptitude for metaphysical inquiry and exposition which added a singular attraction to his writings . In 1861 he joined See also:Meredith Townsend as joint-editor and See also:part proprietor of the Spectator, then a well-known liberal weekly, which, however, was not remunerative from the business point of view . Hutton took See also:charge of the See also:literary See also:side of the See also:paper, and by degrees his own articles became and remained up to the last one of the best-known features of serious and thoughtful English journalism . The Spectator, which gradually became a prosperous See also:property, was his See also:pulpit, in which unwearyingly he gave expression to his views, particularly on literary, religious and philosophical subjects, in opposition to the agnostic and rationalistic opinions then current in intellectual circles, as popularized by See also:Huxley . A See also:man of fearless honesty, See also:quick and See also:catholic sympathies, broad culture, and many See also:friends in intellectual and religious circles, he became one of the most influential journalists of the See also:day, his See also:fine See also:character and See also:conscience earning universal respect and confidence . He was an See also:original member of the Metaphysical Society (1869) . He was an See also:anti-vivisectionist, and a member of the royal See also:commission (1875) on that subject . In 1858 he had married Eliza Roscoe, a cousin of his first wife; she died See also:early in 1897, and Hutton's own See also:death followed on the 9th of See also:September of the same See also:year . Among his other publications may be mentioned Essays, Theo-logical and Literary (1871; revised 1888), and Criticisms on See also:Con-temporary Thought and Thinkers (1894); and his opinions may be studied compendiously in the selections from his Spectator articles published in 1899 under the See also:title of Aspects of Religious and Scientific Thought .

End of Article: RICHARD HOLT HUTTON (1826-1897)
[back]
JAMES HUTTON (1726-1797)
[next]
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY (1825–1895)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.