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Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawny (1864–1929)
Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, liberal political theorist and journalist, is best known today for his 1911 Liberalism, which became the quintessential statement of British new liberalism. Having begun his studies at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1883, Hobhouse was elected a fellow of the college in 1894. He left Oxford in 1897 for Manchester, where he began a long association writing for C. P. Scott's Manchester Guardian. He resigned writing for the Manchester Guardian on a regular basis in 1902, subsequently also contributing to The Nation and other radical liberal publications. In 1907, he was elected to the Martin White Chair in Sociology, the first ever chair in sociology in Great Britain, at the London School of Economics. He held this position until his death in ...
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