(12 November 1867 – 10 January 1955)
Joseph Martin McCabe was born at 14 Chestergate, Macclesfield, Cheshire, but his family moved to Manchester, near Gorton Monastery, while he was a child. He trained there as a Franciscan Friar from the age of 15.
Father Antony
His novitiate year took place in Killarney, after which he was moved to St Bonaventure’s School, Forest [...]
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(1864 – 1940)
Gustav Spiller was a member of the Ethical Societies that preceded the modern Humanist movement. He wrote a number of secular hymns and books including a history of these Societies, and on psychology.
Spiller was a Jew born in Budapest, Hungary but later naturalised as English.
By the late 1880’s Spiller worked for the Labour Office of [...]
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(99-55 BCE)
Titus Lucretius Carus was a Roman poet contemporary of Julius Caesar. Little is known of him apart from his name and his poem De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) which nevertheless reveals much about his beliefs and his character.
The main purpose of the work was to free Gaius Memmius (to whom he [...]
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Johanna Mary [Hanna] Sheehy-Skeffington, (1877-1946)
Francis Sheehy-Skeffington (1878–1916)
Owen Lancelot Sheehy-Skeffington (1909-1970)
The Sheehy-Skeffingtons – the feminist and Irish nationalist Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, her husband, the pacifist, suffragist and writer, Francis, and their son, Owen, a founder member of the Humanist Association or Ireland – were notable Irish atheists.
Hanna and Francis
Born into the Roman Catholic tradition and educated by [...]
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(c. 279–c. 206 BCE)
Chrysippus of Soli was a Greek Stoic philosopher.
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(341 – 270 BCE)
Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher. He is often cited as a precursor of modern Humanism, but very little of his teachings have survived except in the recollections of his later followers, in particular in De Rerum Natura by the Roman poet Lucretius.
This epitaph, based on his philosophy, can still be seen [...]
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(1837–1909)
Algernon Charles Swinburne was a controversial English poet.
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(21 September 1929–10 June 2003)
Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams was an English moral philosopher, described by The Times as the “most brilliant and most important British moral philosopher of his time”.
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(May 10, 1886 – September 6, 1950)
William Olaf Stapledon was a British philosopher and author of several influential works of science fiction.
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(24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888)
Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools.
Arnold was an alumni of Balliol College, Oxford and his work inspired Thomas Hardy who went on to reject the idea that Christianity could be adapted to modern thought.
A blue plaque commemorates Arnold at 2 Chester [...]
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