Hibbert

(Julian), Free thought philanthropist, b. 1801. During the imprisonment of Richard Carlile he was active in sustaining his publications. Learning that a distinguished political prisoner had received a gift of £1,000, he remarked that a Freethinking prisoner should not want equal friends, and gave Carlile a cheque for the same amount. Julian Hibbert spent nearly £1,000 in fitting up Carlile’s shop in Fleet Street. He contributed “Theological Dialogues” to the Republican , and also contributed to the Poor Man’s Guardian . Hibbert set up a private pre and printed in uncial Greek the Orphic Hymns , ’27, and also Plutarch and Theophrastus on Superstition , to which he wrote a life of Plutarch and appended valuable e ays “on the supposed nece ity of deceiving the vulgar”; “various definitions of an important word” [God], and a catalogue of the principal modern works against Atheism. He also commenced a Dictionary of Anti-Superstitionists , and Chronological Tables of British Freethinkers . He wrote a short life of Holbach, published by James Watson, to whom, and to Henry He the ring ton, he left £500 each. Died December 1834. Hedin (Sven Adolph), Swedish member of the “ Andra Kammaren ” [House of Commons], b. 1834. Studied at Upsala and became philosophical candidate , ’61. Edited the Aftonbladet , ’74–76. Has written many radical works.