JAMES

See also:

• EDWIN, AEDUINI
• EDWIN, JOHN (1749–1790)

EDWIN THOROLD

See also:

• ROGERS, HENRY DARWIN (18o8—1866)
• JAMES EDWIN THOROLD ROGERS (1823-1890)
• ROGERS, JOHN (1627–c. 1665)
• ROGERS, JOHN (1829-1904)
• ROGERS, JOHN (c. 1500-1555)
• ROGERS, ROBERT (1727-1784?)
• ROGERS, S
• ROGERS, SAMUEL (1763-1855)
• ROGERS, WILLIAM (1819-1896)

ROGERS (1823-1890)  , English economist, was born at West Meon, Hampshire, in 1823 . He was educated at King's College, London, and Magdalen Hall, Oxford . After taking a first-class degree in 1846, he was ordained, and was for a few years a curate in Oxford . Subsequently, however, he resigned his orders . For some time the classics were the chief field of his activity . He devoted himself a good deal to classical and philosophical tuition in Oxford with success, and his publications included an edition of Aristotle's Ethics (in 1865) . Simultaneously with these occupations he had been diligently studying economics, with the result that in 1859 he was appointed professor of statistics and economic science at King's College, London, a post which he filled till his death . From 1862 to 1867 he also held the position of Drummond professor of political economy at Oxford . During that period he published (in 1866) the first two volumes of his History of Agriculture and Prices in England, dealing with the period 1259–1400, a minute and masterly record of the subject, and the work upon which his reputation mainly rests . Two more volumes (1401–1582) were published in 1882, a fifth and sixth (1583–1702) in 1887, and he left behind him at his death copious materials for a seventh and eighth . In 1868 he published a Manual of Political Economy, and in 1869 an edition of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations . In 1875 he collected and edited the Protests of the Lords .

An intimate acquaintance with

Cobden and John Bright led Rogers to take an active part in politics: he represented Southwark in parliament from 188o to 1885, and Bermondsey from 1885–86, as an advanced Liberal . In 1888, on the death of Professor Bonamy Price, who had succeeded him at Oxford as professor of political economy, he was re-elected to the post, and held it till his death . Previously (in 1883) he had been appointed lecturer in political economy at Worcester College, Oxford . His latter years were mainly spent at Oxford, where he died on the 12th of October 189o . He was celebrated as a caustic wit and humorist . Of his miscellaneous economic and historical writings, which were numerous, the most note-worthy is his Six Centuries of Work and Wages, published in 1884 . As an economist, Thorold Rogers did much to promote the historical study of his subject . He was, however, apt to be guided too frequently by political prejudice, and the value of his work suffered from his aggressively contentious spirit .