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CONGREVE, RICHARD (1818-1899)

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 938 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CONGREVE, RICHARD (1818-1899) , English Positivist, was born at Leamington on the 4th of September 1818, and was educated at Rugby under Dr
Arnold
 , who is said to have expressed a higher
opinion
  of him than of any other pupil. After taking first-class honours at Oxford and gaining a fellowship at Wadham College, he spent some time as a master at Rugby, but returned to Oxford as a tutor. Soon after the revolution of 1848 he visited Paris, where he made the acquaintance of
Barthelemy
  St Hilaire and Auguste Comte. He was so attracted by the Positive philosophy that he resigned his fellowship in 1855, and devoted the remainder of his life to the propagation of the Positive philosophy. He took a leading part in the
work
  carried on in Chapel Street, Lamb's Conduit Street. In 1878 he declined to admit the authority of Pierre Laffitte, Comte's official successor, and the result was a split in the ranks of English
Positivism
 , Frederic Harrison, Dr J. H. Bridges and Professor E. Beesly forming a separate society at Newton
Hall
 , Fetter Lane. Congreve translated several of Comte's works, and in 1874 published a large volume of essays, in which he advocated Comte's view that it was the duty of
Great
  Britain to renounce her foreign possessions. He was a man of high character, courtly manners and
great
  intellectual capacity. He died at
Hampstead
  on the 5th of July 1899.


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