BAGEHOT, WALTER (1826-1877)

—Economist, s. of a banker, b. at Lang port, Somerset, ed. at University Coll., London, and called to the Bar, but did not practise, and joined his f. in busine . He wrote for various periodicals, and from 1860 was editor of The Economist . He was the author of The English Constitution (1867), a standard work which was translated into several languages; Physics and Politics (1872), and Lombard Street (1873), a valuable financial work. A collection of e ays, biographical and economic, was pub. after his death.