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Bowood circle, the Glossary

The Bowood circle was a loose, international group of intellectual figures and writers of the later 18th century drawn together around Lord Shelburne, Prime Minister of Great Britain in the 1780s, and named after his residence Bowood House.^[1]

19 relations: Étienne Clavière, Étienne Dumont, Benjamin Vaughan, Bowood House, Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, Intellectual, Jeremy Bentham, John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton, Joseph Priestley, Lunar Society of Birmingham, Nassau William Senior, Reform, Richard Price, Roscoe circle, Samuel Romilly, Think tank, Thomas Jervis (minister), William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne.
1780s in Great Britain
1780s in politics
Whig (British political party) politicians

Étienne Clavière

Étienne Clavière (29 January 17358 December 1793) was a Genevan-born French financier and politician of the French Revolution.

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Étienne Dumont

Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont (18 January or 18 July 1759 – 29 September 1829), sometimes anglicised as Stephen Dumont, was a Swiss French political writer.

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Benjamin Vaughan

Benjamin Vaughan MD FRSE LLD (19 April 1751 – 8 December 1835) was a British political radical.

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Bowood House

Bowood is a Grade I listed Georgian country house in Wiltshire, England, that has been owned for more than 250 years by the Fitzmaurice family.

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Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope

Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, aka Charles Mahon, 3rd Earl Stanhope, FRS (3 August 175315 December 1816), was a British statesman, inventor, and scientist.

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Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, (2 July 178031 January 1863), known as Lord Henry Petty from 1784 to 1809, was a British statesman.

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Intellectual

An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about the reality of society, and who proposes solutions for its normative problems. Bowood circle and intellectual are intellectual history.

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Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham (4 February 1747/8 O.S. – 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.

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John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton

John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton (18 October 1731 – 18 August 1783), of Spitchwick the parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Devon, was an English lawyer and politician, born in Ashburton in Devon, who served as Solicitor-General from 1768.

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Joseph Priestley

Joseph Priestley (24 March 1733 – 6 February 1804) was an English chemist, Unitarian, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator, liberal political theorist.

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Lunar Society of Birmingham

The Lunar Society of Birmingham was a British dinner club and informal learned society of prominent figures in the Midlands Enlightenment, including industrialists, natural philosophers and intellectuals, who met regularly between 1765 and 1813 in Birmingham.

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Nassau William Senior

Nassau William Senior (26 September 1790 – 4 June 1864), was an English lawyer known as an economist.

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Reform

Reform refers to the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.

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Richard Price

Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a Welsh moral philosopher, Nonconformist minister and mathematician.

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Roscoe circle

The Roscoe circle was a loosely-defined group of reformers in Liverpool at the end of the 18th century, around William Roscoe (1753–1831), a banker, politician and abolitionist. Bowood circle and Roscoe circle are Age of Enlightenment.

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Samuel Romilly

Sir Samuel Romilly (1 March 1757 – 2 November 1818), was a British lawyer, politician and legal reformer.

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Think tank

A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture.

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Thomas Jervis (minister)

Thomas Jervis (1748–1833) was an English unitarian minister.

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William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne

William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, (2 May 17377 May 1805; known as the Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history), was an Anglo-Irish Whig statesman who was the first home secretary in 1782 and then prime minister in 1782–83 during the final months of the American War of Independence.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowood_circle