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Richard Whately (1 February 1787 – 8 October 1863) was an English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist, and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin.
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Jan 28, 2024 · Richard Whately (born Feb. 1, 1787, London, Eng.—died Oct. 8, 1863, Dublin, Ire.) Anglican archbishop of Dublin, educator, logician, and social reformer. The son of a clergyman, Whately was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and took holy orders.
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Richard Whately (February 1, 1787 – October 8, 1863) was an English logician, educator, social reformer, economist and theological writer, and Anglican archbishop of Dublin (1831–1863). Whately’s two standard texts, Elements of Rhetoric (1828) and Elements of Logic (1826), are considered largely responsible for the revival of the study of ...
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May 17, 2018 · WHATELY, RICHARD. ( b. London, England, 1 February 1787; d. Dublin, Ireland, 1 October 1863), logic. Whately’s father, Joseph Whately, was a minister and a lecturer at Gresham College. Shortly before his death in 1797, he placed his son in a private school at Bristol.
Richard Whately, the English logician, was a fellow of Oriel College and archbishop of Dublin. In 1860 Augustus De Morgan said of Whately that "to him is due the title of the restorer of logical study in England." Between 1826, the year Whately's Elements of Logic was published, and 1860, George Boole, De Morgan, and John Stuart Mill were writing.
Jul 20, 2010 · Richard Whately. July 20, 2010. Richard Whately was born the youngest of nine children in London, England, to the Reverend and Mrs. Joseph Whately on February 1, 1787. As a child he spent most of his days in his grandfather's garden, daydreaming and studying insects. At the age of nine, his parents sent him to a private school outside Bristol.
Archbishop Richard Whately - Irish Biography. Alfred Webb. A Compendium of Irish Biography. 1878. Whately, Richard, Archbishop of Dublin, was born in Cavendish-square, London, 1st February 1787. This learned writer and political philosopher was consecrated Archbishop of Dublin in 1831. "Dr.