Congreve, RICHARD

Congreve, RICHARD, Positivist, born at Leamington, Sept. 4, 1818, and educated under Arnold at Rugby, became a scholar, fellow, and tutor of Wadham College, Oxford, but resigned after having become definitively a disciple of Comte. He died 5th July 1899. In 1855 he published a good edition of Aristotle's Politics. Later works are Lectures on the Roman Empire of the West (1855); Elizabeth of England (1862); The Catechism of Positivist Religion (1858); Essays: Political, Social, and Religious (1874); besides many propagandist sermons and addresses.