Philip Wicksteed

Philip Henry Wicksteed is known primarily as an economist. He was also an English Unitarian theologian, classicist, medievalist, and literary critic.

His father was a clergyman within the same tradition of English Dissent. His mother was born into the Lupton family, a socially progressive, politically active dynasty of businessmen and traders, long established in Leeds, a city both prosperous and squalid with the rapid growth of the Industrial Revolution. In 1835 Wicksteed had taken up the ministry of the Unitarian place of worship, Mill Hill Chapel, right on the citys central square, and two years later the couple married. In 1841 his sister Elizabeth married Janes brother Arthur , also a Unitarian minister Uncle Arthur was, according to a family history, The Achilles of the Leeds Complete Suffrage Association in other words, a tragic champion of the fight for universal suffrage see Chartism and Henry Vincent for more on the CSA. One of their children, a first cousin to Philip, was the maverick MP and mining engineer Arnold Lupton. Jane was described as impractical but accomplished and both the Wicksteed siblings as Unitarians of

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