William George de Burgh (1866–1943): Reason, Morality and religion

W. G. de Burgh could have been speaking of himself. Tall, slim, bespectacled, and of aristocratic features, he had an aloof air but, as we shall see, his students loved him, notwithstanding the dim view he took of some of their attainments and interests. Beneath all was a religiously-grounded optimi...

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Published inFour Philosophical Anglicans pp. 15 - 80
Main Author Sell, Alan P.F.
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United Kingdom Routledge 2010
Taylor & Francis Group
Subjects
Christian theology
Philosophy of religion
Life Worth Living
Intellectual Faith
Good Life
Lady Grey
URC
Salto Mortale
Thomas Baring
Vice Versa
Gifford Lectures
Christian Ethics
Trp
Literae Humaniores
Kant’s Moral Law
Duty’s Sake
Ratione Boni
Hibbert Journal
Infused Virtue
Reasonable Faith
George Grey
Moral Principle
Perpetual Re-enactment
Toynbee Hall
Sir George Grey
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Summary:W. G. de Burgh could have been speaking of himself. Tall, slim, bespectacled, and of aristocratic features, he had an aloof air but, as we shall see, his students loved him, notwithstanding the dim view he took of some of their attainments and interests. Beneath all was a religiously-grounded optimism which looked for the best in others, and could write off no one. His friend, A. E. Taylor, supplies many of the basic family details:William George de Burgh, born at New Wandsworth on 24 October 1866, was the son of William de Burgh, a barrister holding a post at the War Office, and of his wife, Hannah Jane Monck Mason, a great-granddaughter of Samuel Whitbread,2 and granddaughter of the Lady Grey (great-grandmother to Viscount Grey of Falloden) who was well known in the Evangelical movement of her day.3 Of his paternal uncles, one, Maurice de Burgh, was Archdeacon of Ness, another, Hubert, became a priest in the Roman Catholic Church. Dean de Burgh, his paternal grandfather, was the builder of the church at Sandymount, Dublin. He was thus of mixed Norman-Irish and Northumberland strain, an ‘aristocrat’ in the proper sense of a much abused word ... his mother (who lost her own father early) was much attached to her uncle, Sir George Grey, Home Secretary, and to her cousins, in particular to Thomas Baring, Lord Northbrook.4
ISBN:9781409400592
140940059X
DOI:10.4324/9781315255095-8