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Title:

Spencer, Herbert

Reference:

PERSONS/19/1255

Date:

1820 - 1903

Level of Description:

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Institution:

Coventry Archives & Research Centre

Scope and Content:

1820-1903. Beginning life as an engineer on the Birmingham & Gloucester Railway (1837-41) Spencer invented an invalid bed in 1866 but was primarily a philosopher who turned towards individualistic view of sociology in the 1850s; Spencer visited "Rosehill" and became well known to "George Eliot"; in 1885 he attacked the rising philosophical force of positivism.

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