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JAMES EDWIN THOROLD ROGERS (1823-1890)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 456 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:EDWIN THOROLD See also:ROGERS (1823-1890)  , See also:English economist, was See also:born at See also:West Meon, See also:Hampshire, in 1823 . He was educated at See also:King's See also:College, See also:London, and Magdalen See also:Hall, See also:Oxford . After taking a first-class degree in 1846, he was ordained, and was for a few years a See also:curate in Oxford . Subsequently, however, he resigned his orders . For some See also:time the See also:classics were the See also:chief See also:field of his activity . He devoted himself a See also:good See also:deal to classical and philosophical tuition in Oxford with success, and his publications included an edition of See also:Aristotle's See also:Ethics (in 1865) . Simultaneously with these occupations he had been diligently studying See also:economics, with the result that in 1859 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:statistics and economic See also:science at King's College, London, a See also:post which he filled till his See also:death . From 1862 to 1867 he also held the position of See also:Drummond professor of See also:political See also:economy at Oxford . During that See also:period he published (in 1866) the first two volumes of his See also:History of See also:Agriculture and Prices in See also:England, dealing with the period 1259–1400, a See also:minute and masterly See also:record of the subject, and the See also:work upon which his reputation mainly rests . Two more volumes (1401–1582) were published in 1882, a fifth and See also:sixth (1583–1702) in 1887, and he See also:left behind him at his death copious materials for a seventh and eighth . In 1868 he published a See also:Manual of Political Economy, and in 1869 an edition of See also:Adam See also:Smith's See also:Wealth of Nations . In 1875 he collected and edited the Protests of the Lords .

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

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