About T. E. Jessop
Lived 1896 – 1980 (aged 84). T. E. Jessop was a British philosopher and university teacher.
Thomas Edmund Jessop, (10 September 1896 - 10 September 1980) was a British academic best known for his work on George Berkeley.
Biography Jessop was born, the son of Newton and Georgiana (Swift) Jessop, in Huddersfield on 10 September 1896.
His book The Treaty of Versailles: Was it Just? concluded that the 1919 peace treaty was overall a just one.
Jessop was a Methodist, serving as a local preacher and, in 1955 as Vice-President of the Methodist Conference.
Works (with A. A. Luce) A Bibliography of George Berkeley (1934; 2nd ed. 1968). A Bibliography of David Hume and of Scottish Philosophy from Francis Hutcheson to Lord Balfour (1938; 2nd ed. 1983). Law and Love: A Study of the Christian Ethics (1940). The Treaty of Versailles: Was it Just? (London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1942). The Christian Morality (1960). Thomas Hobbes (1960).
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Who was T. E. Jessop?
British philosopher (1896-1980)
When was T. E. Jessop born?
T. E. Jessop was born on 10 September 1896 in Kingston upon Hull.
When did T. E. Jessop die?
T. E. Jessop died on 10 September 1980 in Kingston upon Hull.
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T. E. Jessop was a philosopher and university teacher.
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T. E. Jessop was British.
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