T. E. Jessop

T. E. Jessop
Born	10 September 1896 Huddersfield, England, U. K.
Died	10 September 1980 (aged 84) Hull, England, UK

Thomas Edmund Jessop, OBE (10 September 1896 - 10 September 1980) was a British academic best known for his work on George Berkeley. ^[1]

Biography

Jessop was born, the son of Newton and Georgiana (Swift) Jessop, in Huddersfield on 10 September 1896. ^[1]

He was educated at the University of Leeds, where he received his B.A. (1921) and M.A. (1922). ^[1] He gained his B.Litt from Oriel College, Oxford. ^[1] From 1925 to 1928 he was an assistant lecturer at the University of Glasgow. ^[1]

Jessop was the first member of Hull University's philosophy department and the first Ferens Professor of Philosophy (1928–1960). ^[1] Jessop served as the philosophy department's sole member of teaching staff for seventeen years, while also teaching courses for the psychology degree. ^[1] In 1946 he was joined at the department of philosophy by 'ordinary language' philosopher Alan R. White (who succeeded Jessop to the Ferens Chair in 1961). ^[2]

His book The Treaty of Versailles: Was it Just? concluded that the 1919 peace treaty was overall a just one. ^[3]

Jessop was a Methodist, serving as a local preacher and, in 1955 as Vice-President of the Methodist Conference ^[4]

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).

Notes

1. Talia Mae Bettcher, 'Jessop, Thomas Edmund (1896-1980)' in Stuart Brown and Hugh Bredin (eds.), Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers (A&C Black, 2005), pp. 474-475.
2. Matheson, David J. (2006), "White, Alan Richard" , in Grayling, A.C.; Goulder, Naomi; Pyle, Andrew (eds.), The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy, Continuum, doi:10.1093/acref/9780199754694.001.0001, hdl: 11693/51028 , ISBN   978-0-19-975469-4 , retrieved 3 March 2019
3. Robert Gale Woolbert, 'Review: The Treaty of Versailles: Was It Just? by T. E. Jessop', Foreign Affairs (October 1943).
4. "Jessop, Dr Thomas Edmund, OBE, MC". A dictionary of Methodism in Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 9 May 2022.

External links

• Lecture Note Book of Professor T.E. Jessop
• ‘A Brief History of the Department’, (by Stephen A. Burwood) University of Hull Department of Philosophy (Archived by Wayback Machine)