Wathen Mark Wilks Call
Wathen Mark Wilks Call (June 7, 1817 – August 20, 1890) was an English freethinker, poet and writer. He was a deacon and priest in the Church of England from 1843 to 1856.[1]
Career
Call was educated at St John's College, Cambridge and obtained a BA (1843) and MA (1846). He was an ordained deacon (1843), priest (1844) and curate at Treneglos with Warbstow, Cornwall (1846) and in Marston Bigot, Somerset (1847-1856). Call later had doubts and resigned from the Church of England in 1856.[2][3] He became an advocate of positivism and contributed to magazines such as The Fortnightly Review, Household Words and The Westminster Review.[2][3] He married Rufa Hennell in 1857.[4] He was a friend of George Eliot and George Henry Lewes.[5]
His book Final Causes: A Refutation was a criticism of the argument from design.[6]
He died at Addison Gardens, Kensington.[2]
Publications
- Lyra Hellenica (1842)
- Golden Histories, Etc. (1871)
- Reverberations Revised, With a Chapter From My Autobiography (1875)
- Final Causes: A Refutation (1891)
References
- ↑ Sell, Alan P. F. (1997). Mill and Religion: Contemporary Responses to Three Essays on Religion. Thoemmes Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-1855065420
- 1 2 3 Reilly, Catherine. (2000). Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1860-1879. Mansell. p. 78. ISBN 0-7201-2318-6
- 1 2 Smith, Warren Allen. (2000). Who's Who in Hell: A Handbook and International Directory for Humanists, Freethinkers, Naturalists, Rationalists, and Non-Theists. Barricade Books. p. 175. ISBN 978-1569801581
- ↑ Ashton, Rosemary. (2008). 142 Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London. Vintage Books. p. 301. ISBN 978-0712606967
- ↑ Henry, Nancy. (2002). George Eliot and the British Empire. Cambridge University Press. p. 44. ISBN 0-521-80845-6
- ↑ Clapperton, Jane Hume. (1892). Reviewed Work: Final Causes: A Refutation by Walthen Mark Wilks Call. International Journal of Ethics 2 (2): 269-270.