Thomas Edmund Jessop, OBE (10 September 1896 - 10 September 1980) was a British academic best known for his work on George Berkeley.[1]
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Born | 10 September 1896 Huddersfield, England, U. K. |
Died | 10 September 1980 (aged 84) Hull, England, UK |
Jessop was born, the son of Newton and Georgiana (Swift) Jessop, in Huddersfield on 10 September 1896.[1]
He was educated at the University of Leeds, where he received his B.A. (1921) and M.A. (1922).[1] He gained his B.Litt from Oriel College, Oxford.[1] From 1925 to 1928 he was an assistant lecturer at the University of Glasgow.[1]
Jessop was the first member of Hull University's philosophy department and the first Ferens Professor of Philosophy (1928–1960).[1] Jessop served as the philosophy department's sole member of teaching staff for seventeen years, while also teaching courses for the psychology degree.[1] In 1946 he was joined at the department of philosophy by 'ordinary language' philosopher Alan R. White (who succeeded Jessop to the Ferens Chair in 1961).[2]
His book The Treaty of Versailles: Was it Just? concluded that the 1919 peace treaty was overall a just one.[3]
Jessop was a Methodist, serving as a local preacher and, in 1955 as Vice-President of the Methodist Conference[4]