Henry Sidgwick

Henry Sidgwick was an English utilitarian philosopher and economist. He was one of the founders and first president of the Society for Psychical Research and a member of the Metaphysical Society, and promoted the higher education of women. His work in economics has also had a lasting influence. He also founded Newnham College in Cambridge in 1875. Newnham College is a womenonly constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. It was the second Cambridge college to admit women after Girton College. The cofounder of the college was Millicent Garrett Fawcett. He joined the Cambridge Apostles intellectual secret society in 1856.

He was born at Skipton in Yorkshire, where his father, the Reverend W. Sidgwick , was headmaster of the local grammar school, Ermysteds Grammar School. His mother was Mary Sidgwick, ne Crofts, 18071879.

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