Philosophers

Francis Bacon - 1600's Father of Science

***TOO LONG*** Sir Francis Bacon was the father of empiricism and the scientific method. An English philosopher and s...

John Locke - The "Father of Liberalism" c.1700

A Pillar of British Intellectual Heritage and the Progenitor of Liberal Thought.

David Hume - Scottish Enlightenment Empiricist 1740s

Scottish Enlightenment Empiricist and his Contribution to British Heritage.

John Stuart Mill - Classic Liberalist of the Nineteenth Century

***TOO LONG*** John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, Member of Parliament (MP...

Karl Marx - Critic of the System, 1800s

Critic of the System and His Contribution to British Heritage.

Thomas Paine - American Independence c. 1776 - britishheritage.org

Thomas Paine - American Independence c. 1776

***TOO LONG***Thomas Paine (1737–1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and helpe...

George Orwell - In 1949 he wrote "1984" - britishheritage.org

George Orwell - In 1949 he wrote "1984"

***TOO LONG*** Under his pen name "George Orwell", Eric Arthur Blair (1903 –1950), was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. Best known known for the allegorical Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), his work remains influential in popular and politic...