English philosopher Samuel Alexander's debt to Wordsworth and Meredith is a recent interesting example, as also A. N. Whitehead's understanding of the English romantics, chiefly Shelley and Wordsworth.

* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), English jurist

In 1805, English instructor and natural philosopher John Dalton used the concept of atoms to explain why elements always react in ratios of small whole numbers ( the law of multiple proportions ) and why certain gases dissolved better in water than others.

* 1686 – John Balguy, English philosopher ( d. 1748 )

* 1891 – C. E. M. Joad, English philosopher and broadcaster ( d. 1953 )

* 1900 – Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher ( d. 1976 )

* 1632 – John Locke, English philosopher and physician ( d. 1704 )

* 1705 – David Hartley, English philosopher ( d. 1757 )

He befriended English poet Matthew Arnold and English philosopher Herbert Spencer as well as being in correspondence and acquaintance with most of the U. S. Presidents, statesmen, and notable writers.

Basic English, also known as Simple English, is an English-based controlled language created ( in essence as a simplified subset of English ) by linguist and philosopher Charles Kay Ogden as an international auxiliary language, and as an aid for teaching English as a Second Language.

Charles Babbage, FRS ( 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871 ) was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer.

Hedonism, for example, teaches that this feeling is pleasure — either one's own, as in egoism ( the 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes ), or everyone's, as in universalistic hedonism, or utilitarianism ( the 19th-century English philosophers Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick ), with its formula of the " greatest pleasure of the greatest number.

Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism ( the 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and the 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche ); satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).

* Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 1772 – 1834 ), English poet and philosopher

* 1679 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher ( b. 1588 )

* 1947 – Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher ( b. 1861 )

* 1631 – Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher ( d. 1679 )

The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of Messina.

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

From the saddlebags, hung on a Hitchcock chair, David took out a good English razor, a present from John Hunter.

Roy Mason is essentially a landscape painter whose style and direction has a kinship with the English watercolorists of the early nineteenth century, especially the beautifully patterned art of John Sell Cotman.

* 1792 – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman ( d. 1840 )

* 1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician ( d. 1751 )

* 1954 – John Lloyd, English tennis player

* 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet ( d. 1957 )

* 1631 – John Dryden, English poet and playwright ( d. 1700 )

* 1653 – John Oldham, English poet ( d. 1683 )

* 1879 – John Ireland, English composer ( d. 1962 )

* 1925 – John Dexter, English director ( d. 1990 )

The first recorded English antitrinitarian was John Assheton who was forced to recant before Thomas Cranmer in 1548.

* 1692 – John Henley, English clergyman ( d. 1759 )

* 1840 – John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician ( d. 1929 )

* 2007 – John Gardner, English author ( b. 1926 )

* 2012 – John Berry, English motorcycle racing promoter and manager ( b. 1944 )

The Baptist movement originated with Thomas Helwys, who left his mentor John Smyth ( who had moved into shared belief and other distinctives of the Dutch Waterlander Mennonites of Amsterdam ) and returned to London to start the first English Baptist Church in 1611.

Later General Baptists such as John Griffith, Samuel Loveday, and Thomas Grantham defended a Reformed Arminian theology that reflected more the Arminianism of Arminius than that of the later Remonstrants or the English Arminianism of Arminian Puritans like John Goodwin or Anglican Arminians such as Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond.

While Wesley freely made use of the term " Arminian ," he did not self-consciously root his soteriology in the theology of Arminius but was highly influenced by 17th-century English Arminianism and thinkers such as John Goodwin, Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond of the Anglican " Holy Living " school, and the Remonstrant Hugo Grotius.

* 1944 – John Renbourn, English guitarist and songwriter ( Pentangle )

* 1682 – John Hadley, English mathematician and inventor of the octant ( d. 1744 )

* 1805 – Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer ( d. 1860 )

( Early modern philosophers like Locke used the corresponding English terms ' nominal essence ' and ' real essence ').

John Locke FRS (; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704 ), widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.

Though Locke was associated with the influential Whigs, his ideas about natural rights and government are today considered quite revolutionary for that period in English history.

Natural law theories have, however, exercised a profound influence on the development of English common law, and have featured greatly in the philosophies of Thomas Aquinas, Francisco Suárez, Richard Hooker, Thomas Hobbes, Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, John Locke, Francis Hutcheson, Jean Jacques Burlamaqui, and Emmerich de Vattel.

" In English Philosophy in the Age of Locke, ed.

Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People ( 1830, Louvre ), a painting created at a time where old and modern political philosophies came into violent conflict. During the Enlightenment period, new theories about what the human was and is and about the definition of reality and the way it was perceived, along with the discovery of other societies in the Americas, and the changing needs of political societies ( especially in the wake of the English Civil War, the American Revolution and the French Revolution ) led to new questions and insights by such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu and John Locke.

Similarly, Belgium took no direct influence from the Statute or English copyright theory, but Joris Deene of the University of Ghent identifies an indirect influence " at two levels "; the criteria for what constitutes copyrightable material, which comes from the work of English theorists such as Locke and Edward Young, and the underlying justification of copyright law.

* 1860 – Joseph Locke, English engineer ( b. 1805 )

* John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ) English Philosopher.

* August 29 – John Locke, English philosopher ( d. 1704 )

* August – Matthew Locke ( composer ), English composer ( b. 1621 )

* October 28 – John Locke, English philosopher ( b. 1632 )

The earliest major philosophers to publish in English, such as Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke also routinely wrote in Latin and French, and compared their terms to Greek, treating the words " logos ", " ratio ", " raison " and " reason " as inter-changeable.

* Locke ( disambiguation ), a common English surname and place name

The first use of the term recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary was by philosopher and social theorist Alain Locke in 1924 to describe Robert Lowie's " extreme cultural relativism ", found in the latter's 1917 book Culture and Ethnology.

Charles Locke Eastlake said of it " he had not yet learned the art of combining a picturesque exterior with the ordinary comforts of an English home ".

The town was named after John Locke, an English philosopher and is the birthplace of Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States.

The laws of primogeniture and entail meant that an estate of land had to be passed on intact to the oldest son, and those without land were in large measure powerless .” Of particular importance at this time were the writings of the great English political theorist John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ).

The English philosopher, John Locke, was one of the earliest to discuss the concept of individual rights.

As was fitting to a disciple of Locke, Condillac's ideas have had most importance in their effect upon English thought.

* John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ), English philosopher

* Joseph Butler ( 1692 – 1752 ) English bishop, theologian, apologist and philosopher who offered critiques of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and influenced figures such as David Hume, Thomas Reid, and Adam Smith