John Neville Figgis

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person John Neville Figgis Template:Post-nominals (2 October 1866 – 13 April 1919) was an English historian, political philosopher, and Anglican priest and monk of the Community of the Resurrection.

Life

He was born in Brighton on 2 October 1866.Template:Sfn Educated at Brighton College and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, he was a student of Lord Acton at Cambridge, and editor of much of Acton's work.

He is remembered in relation to the history of ideas and concepts of the pluralist state. The latter he in some ways adapted from Otto von Gierke; his ideas were picked up by others, such as G. D. H. Cole and Harold Laski. Some of the books which belonged to Figgis form part of the Mirfield Collection which is housed in the University of York Special Collections.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He was professed in the Community of the Resurrection at Mirfield in 1909.Template:Citation needed He died on 13 April 1919 in Virginia Water.Template:Sfn

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