Arthur Ritchie Lord (1880-1941)
 

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(Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, South Africa)

Biographical Note

• b. Feb. 5, 1880, Chudleigh, Devon, England, son of Robert G. Lord, Deputy Surgeon General, I.M.S.
• attended Blundell’s School
• scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford (1898-1902); graduated in the Honours School of Litterae Humaniores, first class
• 1902-1905, University of Aberdeen, Lecturer in Political Science and assistant to Professor Sir James B. Baillie
• 1909, M.A. Oxford
• 1911, Green Moral Philosophy Prize for a dissertation on The Passions.
• July 1, 1905, appointed Professor of Philosophy and History in Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, South Africa
• 1907, married Hilda Maud Waide, a teacher in the Milburn House School in Cape Town; they had two sons.
• 1921, The Principles of Politics (Oxford, 1921)
• Ill health forced him to retire as of Dec. 31, 1940
• d. Dec. 30, 1941

Bibliography

• The Principles of Politics; an introduction to the study of the evolution of political ideas, by A. R. Lord. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1921.
• Philosophical Lectures and Remains of Arthur Ritchie Lord  (a collection of published and unpublished essays) edited by William Sweet and E.E. Harris