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T. E. Jessop

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T. E. Jessop
Born10 September 1896
Huddersfield, England, U. K.
Died10 September 1980 (aged 84)
Hull, England, UK

Thomas Edmund Jessop, OBE (10 September 1896 - 10 September 1980) was a British academic best known for his work on George Berkeley.[1]

Biography

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Jessop was born, the son of Newton and Georgiana (Swift) Jessop, in Huddersfield on 10 September 1896.[1]

He was educated at the University of Leeds, where he received his B.A. (1921) and M.A. (1922).[1] He gained his B.Litt from Oriel College, Oxford.[1] From 1925 to 1928 he was an assistant lecturer at the University of Glasgow.[1]

Jessop was the first member of Hull University's philosophy department and the first Ferens Professor of Philosophy (1928–1960).[1] Jessop served as the philosophy department's sole member of teaching staff for seventeen years, while also teaching courses for the psychology degree.[1] In 1946 he was joined at the department of philosophy by 'ordinary language' philosopher Alan R. White (who succeeded Jessop to the Ferens Chair in 1961).[2]

His book The Treaty of Versailles: Was it Just? concluded that the 1919 peace treaty was overall a just one.[3]

Jessop was a Methodist, serving as a local preacher and, in 1955 as Vice-President of the Methodist Conference[4]

Works

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Talia Mae Bettcher, 'Jessop, Thomas Edmund (1896-1980)' in Stuart Brown and Hugh Bredin (eds.), Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers (A&C Black, 2005), pp. 474-475.
  2. ^ Matheson, David J. (2006), "White, Alan Richard", in Grayling, A.C.; Goulder, Naomi; Pyle, Andrew (eds.), The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy, Continuum, doi:10.1093/acref/9780199754694.001.0001, ISBN 978-0-19-975469-4, retrieved 3 March 2019
  3. ^ Robert Gale Woolbert, 'Review: The Treaty of Versailles: Was It Just? by T. E. Jessop', Foreign Affairs (October 1943).
  4. ^ "Jessop, Dr Thomas Edmund, OBE, MC". A dictionary of Methodism in Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
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