About Thomas Case
Lived 1844 – 1925 (aged 81). Thomas Case was a British philosopher and cricketer.
Thomas Case (Liverpool, 14 July 1844 – Falmouth, 31 October 1925) was an English academic, philosopher, sportsman and author.
Case was educated at Rugby and Balliol. He was Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1868 to 1870; Tutor at Balliol from 1870 to 1876; and on the staff of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from then onwards. He was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford from 1889 to 1910; and President of Corpus from 1904 to 1924. His sons, William and Thomas, were also first-class cricketers.
He married Elizabeth Donn (1848–1927), the daughter of composer William Sterndale Bennett and he was buried on 4 November in Wolvercote cemetery, near Oxford.
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Who was Thomas Case?
Case, Thomas (1844–1925), philosopher and college head
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Thomas Case was born on 17 January 1844.
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Thomas Case died on 17 January 1925.
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Thomas Case was a philosopher and cricketer.
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Thomas Case was British.
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· DBpedia: Thomas Case (cricketer, born 1844)
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Thomas Case. https://biography.guide/thomas-case-philosopher/
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