Bagehot

(Walter), economist and journalist, b. of Unitarian parents, Lang port, Somersets hire, 3 Feb. 1826; he died at the same place 24 March, 1877. He was educated at London University, of which he became a fellow. For the last seventeen years of his life he edited the Economist newspaper. His best-known works are The English Constitution , Lombard Street and Literary Studies . In Physics and Politics (1872), a series of e ays on the Evolution of Society, he applies Darwin ism to politics. Bagehot was a bold, clear, and very original thinker, who rejected historic Christianity.