Henry Fawcett

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1881 Cartoon from Punch: "PROFESSOR FAWCETT, M.P and P.M.G., A Politician of a certain stamp, and President of the Republic of Letters at St. Martin-le-Grand's"

Henry Fawcett (1833 – 1884) was a blind English statesman and economist.

He was born in Salisbury, and educated at the University of Cambridge, where he became Fellow of Trinity Hall. A statue of him stands in Salisbury Market Square.

In 1858, when he was 25, he was blinded by a shooting accident, in spite of which he continued with his studies, especially in economics, and in 1863 published his Manual of Political Economy, becoming in the same year Professor of Political Economy in Cambridge.

After repeated defeats he was elected member of Parliament (MP) for Brighton in 1865. He campaigned for women's suffrage, and through this he met Elizabeth Garrett whom he proposed in 1865. She rejected the proposal to concentrate on becoming a doctor at a time when women doctors were unheard of. Fawcett later married her younger sister Millicent Garrett in 1867.^[1]^[2]

In 1880 he was appointed Postmaster-General. He introduced many innovations, including parcel post, postal orders, and licensing changes to permit payphones and trunk lines.

His career was, however, cut short by his premature death from pleurisy, but not before he had made himself a recognised authority on economics, his works on which include The Economic Position of the British Labourer (1871), Labour and Wages, etc.

He was elected Rector of Glasgow University, 1883

Sir Leslie Stephen wrote a biography of him, Life of Henry Fawcett, in 1885.

References

1. ^ Millicent Garrett Fawcett - Spartacus Educational
2. ^ The Passing Parade with John Doremus, Evening with Ian Holland, Radio 2CH 20:40 AEST 3 August 2007.

External links

Works by Henry Fawcett at Project Gutenberg

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Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.

Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define "blindness.
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A statesman or stateswoman is usually a politician or other notable figure of state who has had a long and respected career in politics at national and international level. As a term of respect, it is usually left to supporters or commentators to use the term.
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economist is an expert in the social science of economics.^[1] The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy.
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Salisbury

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University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and has a reputation as one of the world's most prestigious universities.
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The Professorship of Political Economy is a professorship at the University of Cambridge, founded in 1828.

Professors of Political Economy

George Pryme (1828)
Henry Fawcett (1863)
Alfred Marshall (1884)
Arthur Cecil Pigou (1908)

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Brighton was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 until it was divided into single-member seats from the United Kingdom general election, 1950. It elected two Member of Parliament (MP) by the bloc vote system of election.
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The term women's suffrage refers to an economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage — the right to vote — to women. The movement's origins are usually traced to the United States in the 1820s.
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For the English physician, see Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.

Elizabeth Garrett is the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, and Vice President for Academic Planning and Budget at the University of Southern California Law School.
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Dame Millicent Fawcett GBE (June 11, 1847 – August 5, 1929) was a British suffragist (as opposed to a suffragette) and an early feminist.

She was born Millicent Garrett in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
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In the United Kingdom, the Postmaster General is a now defunct ministerial position.

The king's letters to his subjects are known to have been carried by relays of couriers as long ago as the 15th century. In 1510, Sir Brian Tuke was appointed as "Master of the King's Post".
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MeSH D010998 Pleurisy, also known as pleuritis
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The position of Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow is elected every three years by the students at the University of Glasgow. Seldom referred to as Lord Rector, they are more commonly known just as the Rector.
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Henry Moor (1809 – May 1877) was the second Mayor of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Moor was born in Greenwich, Kent, England. Educated at Rev. Charles P. Burney's school, Greenwich, he was admitted as an attorney, Court of Common Pleas, Lincoln's Inn on 12 November
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