Toulmin is a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Evelyn Toulmin (1877–1945), Anglo-Argentine cricketer
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George Toulmin
Sir George Toulmin (17 March 1857 – 21 January 1923) was an English journalist, newspaper proprietor and Liberal Party politician.
Family and education
George Toulmin was born in Bolton, Lancashire, the son of Councillor George Toulmin ...
(1857–1923), British journalist, newspaper proprietor, and politician
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George Hoggart Toulmin
George Hoggart Toulmin (1754 – July 1817) was an English physician and writer who examined geology and planetary history. He was among the first to suggest that the earth was undergoing constant change, contrary to Aristotelian ideas of a planet ...
(1754–1817), English physician and geological thinker
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Harry Toulmin (Unitarian minister) (1766–1823), son of Joshua Toulmin; served as president of Transylvania Seminary, Kentucky Secretary of State, and U.S. federal judge in Alabama
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Harry Aubrey Toulmin, Sr.
Harry Aubrey Toulmin Sr. (1858 – May 17, 1942) was the United States, American lawyer located in Springfield, Ohio, who wrote the "flying machine" patent application that resulted in the patent granted to Dayton, Ohio, Dayton inventors Wilbur ...
(1858–1942), American lawyer
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Harry Theophilus Toulmin (1838–1916), U.S. federal judge
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Joshua Toulmin
Joshua Toulmin ( – 23 July 1815) of Taunton, England was a noted Christian theology, theologian and a serial English Dissenters, Dissenting minister of Presbyterianism, Presbyterian (1761–1764), Baptist (1765–1803), and then Unitarian ...
(1740–1815), British theologian
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Joshua Toulmin Smith
Joshua Toulmin Smith (29 May 1816 – 28 April 1869) was a British political theorist, lawyer and local historian of Birmingham.
Born in Birmingham as Joshua Smith, the son of William Hawkes Smith (1786–1840), an economic and educational ref ...
(1816–1869), British political theorist, lawyer, and historian
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Lucy Toulmin Smith
Lucy Toulmin Smith (1838–1911) was an Anglo-American antiquarian and librarian, known for her first publication of the York Mystery Plays and other early works.
Life
Toulmin Smith was born at Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on 21 November 1838 ...
(1838–1911), Anglo-American antiquarian and librarian
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Stephen Toulmin
Stephen Edelston Toulmin (; 25 March 1922 – 4 December 2009) was a British philosopher, author, and educator. Influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Toulmin devoted his works to the analysis of moral reasoning. Throughout his writings, he sought t ...
(1922–2009), British philosopher, author, and educator
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Theophilus Toulmin Garrard (1812–1902), American politician and Civil War Union general
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Toulmin Smith, the surname of Lucy and Joshua Toulmin Smith
See also
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Toulmin method, a method of reasoning devised by Stephen Toulmin
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