The Rt Rev. Joseph Butler
(1692-1752)
Bishop of Bristol (1738-1750), Dean of St Paul's (1740-1750), and Bishop of Durham (from 1750)
Died aged 60
Wikidata WikipediaJoseph Butler (18 May O.S. 1692 – 16 June O.S. 1752) was an English Anglican bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher, born in Wantage in the English county of Berkshire (now in Oxfordshire). He is known for critiques of Deism, Thomas Hobbes's egoism, and John Locke's theory of personal identity. The many philosophers and religious thinkers Butler influenced included David Hume, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, Henry Sidgwick, John Henry Newman, and C. D. Broad, and is widely seen as "one of the pre-eminent English moralists." He played a major, if underestimated role in developing 18th-century economic discourse, influencing the Dean of Gloucester and political economist Josiah Tucker.
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Commemorated on 1 plaque
The Priory. The Parsonage House of the Manor of Prior's Hold. Bishop Joseph Butler was born here in 1692.
Priory Road, Wantage, United Kingdom where they lived