Numa Edward Hartog
Numa Edward Hartog (20 May 1846 – 19 June 1871) was a
Cambridge University as Senior Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman but as a Jew had not been admitted to a fellowship. Hartog's case led to the passage of the Universities Tests Act
of 1871, which removed religious barriers to holding fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge.
Biography
Hartog was born in London on 20 May 1846 to Alfonse Hartog and
Marion Moss. He was the elder brother of Cécile, Héléna, Marcus, and Philip Hartog, and the cousin of Henri Bergson
.
In his earlier academic career, he attended
subscribe to the required test
on account of his religion.
Within weeks, Solicitor-General John Coleridge of the Gladstone government introduced legislation to rectify the situation. The House of Lords twice rejected bills passed by the House of Commons before finally accepting the Universities Tests Act of 1871; Hartog's testimony before the Lords helped secure its passage.[1]
He was a member of the Council of Jews' College and an Honorary Secretary of the Society of Hebrew Literature.
Hartog died of smallpox at the age of only 25.[2]
Notes
- ISBN 0-19-927668-4. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ "Talbot Correspondence Project: GILCHRIST-CLARK Matilda Caroline, née Talbot to TALBOT William Henry Fox". dmu.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
External links
- Jewish Encyclopedia. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- Henry Samuel Morais (1880). Eminent Israelites of the nineteenth century: A series of biographical sketches. Philadelphia: Edward Stern & Co. pp. 119–122. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- "Hartog, Numa Edward (HRTG865NE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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