Thomas Fowler (academic)
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Thomas Fowler (1 September 1832 – 20 November 1904) was an English academic and
Early life
Fowler was born 1832 in Burton upon Stather, Lincolnshire,[1] son of William Henry Fowler and his wife, Mary Anne Welch. He was educated at King William's College on the Isle of Man, and obtained a Postmastership (undergraduate) at Merton College, Oxford. In 1852, he took a second class in Classical moderations and a first class in mathematics, but he bettered that position in the final schools by taking a first class in classics followed by a first in mathematics in 1854.[1]
Academic career
In 1855, Fowler was elected a
Fowler was a junior contemporary of men like
He enjoyed university business, and was not a profound and original thinker. He had the gift of writing lucid and scholarly English. His works included two volumes on Deductive and Inductive Logic respectively, which have passed through many editions, and are, in the main, a reproduction for Oxford use of the logical system of
In 1886, he was awarded Bachelor of Divinity (BD) and Doctor of Divinity (DD).[2]
President of Corpus
In 1881, Fowler was elected,
Selected works
- Bacon Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington (1881)
- The Elements of Inductive Logic Oxford at the Clarendon Press (1883)
- Logic, Deductive and Inductive Oxford at the Clarendon Press (1904)
- Novum organum by Francis Bacon, Thomas Fowler (ed., notes, etc.) McMillan and Co., Clarendon Press, Oxford (1878)
- The Principles of Morals (Introductory Chapters) Oxford at the Clarendon Press (1886), Part II (1887)
- Progressive Morality:an Essay in Ethics Macmillan and Co., Oxford (1884)
- Shaftesbury and Hutcheson (English Philosophers) Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington (1882)
References
- ^ a b c d e "Obituary. The President of Corpus". The Times. No. 37557. London. 21 November 1904. p. 10; col B.
- ^ "University Intelligence. Oxford, June 23". The Times. No. 31794. London. 24 June 1886. p. 6; col E.
- ^ "University Intelligence. Oxford, Dec. 12". The Times. No. 30376. London. 13 December 1881. p. 9; col F.