Frank Byron Jevons
| Frank Byron Jevons MA, LLD | |||||||||
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| Born | 1858 | ||||||||
| Died | 1936 | ||||||||
| Residence | Principal of Hatfield Hall, Durham | ||||||||
| Occupation | academic | ||||||||
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Frank Byron Jevons (1858–1936) was a polymath, academic and administrator of Durham University.
He was educated at Nottingham High School and Wadham College, Oxford and appointed a lecturer in Classics at Durham in 1882.
He was the first Censor of St Cuthbert's Society from 1892 until 1897, a role he performed with "skill and humanity".[1] In 1897 he was appointed as Master of Hatfield College where he remained until 1922. He also served as Vice-Chancellor of the university between 1910 and 1912 and Pro Vice-Chancellor between 1912 and 1914 and 1916 to 1921.
He was Professor of Philosophy between 1910 and 1930 and presided at the inaugural meeting of the World Congress of Philosophy in 1923. One of the last Victorian polymaths, in the twenty years before and after 1900, he gave himself successively to the study of classics, philosophy, sociology, history, anthropology, and comparative religion.
A portrait hangs in the refectory of Hatfield College
He was concerned with social and national issues, especially the education of the working classes and of women
Spent career at Durham University. Principal of Hatfield Hall, Vice-Chancellor, Professor of Philosophy.
Publications
External Publications
Jevons, Frank Byron (2011). Comparative Religion. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107401754.
Jevons, Frank Byron. Graeco-Italian Magic. Jevons, Frank Byron. Magic.
Jevons, Frank Byron (1900). Evolution. Methuen.
Jevons, Frank Byron (1886). A History of Greek Literature: From the Earliest Period to the Death of Demosthenes.
Jevons, Frank Byron. Masks and Acting. ISBN 978-1-113-28297-2.
Jevons, Frank Byron. Personality. ISBN 978-1-112-31066-9. Plutarch (1892) [c.100].
Jevons, Frank Byron, ed. Plutarch's Romane Questions. based on 1603 translation by Philemon Holland. David Nutt in The Strand. ISBN 978-1-117-10776-9.
Jevons, Frank Byron (1908). An Introduction To The Study Of Comparative Religion. The Macmillan Company. ISBN 9781178627886. Jevons, Frank Byron. Prehistoric Antiquities Of The Aryan Peoples: A Manual Of Comparative Philology And The Earliest Culture Being The Sprachvergleichung Und Urgeschichte Of Dr. O. Schrader. ISBN 978-0-548-09482-2.
Jevons, Frank Byron. Religion In Evolution. ISBN 978-1-172-27073-6.
Jevons, Frank Byron. The Development of the Athenian Democracy. ISBN 978-1-241-40147-4.
Jevons, Frank Byron. The Evolution of the Religious Consciousness.
Jevons, Frank Byron. The Makers of Hellas: A Critical Inquiry Into the Philosophy and Religion of Ancient Greece. ISBN 978-1-148-28157-5.