GEORGE CROOM

See also:

• ROBERTSON, FREDERICK WILLIAM (1816-1853)
• GEORGE CROOM ROBERTSON (1842-1892)
• ROBERTSON, JOSEPH (1810-1866)
• ROBERTSON, THOMAS WILLIAM (1829-1871)
• ROBERTSON, WILLIAM BRUCE (182o-1886)

ROBERTSON (1842-1892)  , Scottish philosopher, was born at Aberdeen on the loth of March 1842_ In 1857 he gained a bursary at Marischal College, and graduated M.A. in 1861, with the highest honours in classics and philosophy . In ..the same year he won a 'Fergusson scholarship of boo a year for two years, which enabled him' to pursue his studies outside Scotland . He went first to University College, London; at Heidelberg he worked at German; at Berlin he studied psychology, metaphysics and also physiology under du Bois-Reymond, and heard lectures on Hegel, Kant and the history of philosophy, ancient and modern . After two months at Gottingen, he went to Paris in June 1863 . In the same year he returned to Aberdeen and helped Alexander Bain with the revision of some of his books . In 1864 he was appointed to help Professor Geddes with his Greek classes, but he gave up the vacations to philosophical work . In 1866 he was appointed professor of philosophy of mind and logic at University College, London . This post he retained until ill-health compelled him to resign a few months before his death in 1892 . He lectured on logic, deductive and inductive, systematic psychology and ethical theory . He left little published work . A comprehensive work on Hobbes was never completed, though part of the materials were used for an article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and another portion was published as one of Blackwood's " Philosophical Classics." Together with Bain, he edited Grote's Aristotle, and was the editor of Mind from its foundation in 1876 till 189r . He was keenly interested in German philosophy, and took every opportunity of making German works on English writers known in the United Kingdom .

In philosophy he followed mainly

Mill and Bain, but he was acquainted with all philosophical literature . He was associated with his wife (a daughter of Mr Justice Crompton) in many kinds of social work; he sat on the Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, and was actively associated with its president, John Stuart Mill . He warmly supported the admission of women students to University College .