Thomas Edmund Jessop, (10 September 1896 - 10 September 1980) was a British academic best known for his work on

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.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.

Biography

Jessop was born, the son of Newton and Georgiana (Swift) Jessop, in

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on 10 September 1896. He was educated at the

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, where he received his B.A. (1921) and M.A. (1922). He gained his B.Litt from

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. From 1925 to 1928 he was an assistant lecturer at the

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. Jessop was the first member of

Hull University The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1927 as University College Hull. The main university campus is located in Hull and is home to the Hu ...

's philosophy department and the first Ferens Professor of Philosophy (1928–1960). Jessop served as the philosophy department's sole member of teaching staff for seventeen years, while also teaching courses for the psychology degree. In 1946 he was joined at the department of philosophy by '

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' philosopher Alan R. White (who succeeded Jessop to the Ferens Chair in 1961). His book ''The Treaty of Versailles: Was it Just?'' concluded that the 1919 peace treaty was overall a just one. Jessop was a

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, serving as a

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and, in 1955 as Vice-President of the Methodist Conference

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

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

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