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About John Henry Bridges
John Henry Bridges FRCP was an English physician, public-health administrator, writer and translator, and one of the leaders of the positivist movement in England. With his lifelong friends Frederic Harrison and Edward Spencer Beesly, and their senior Richard Congreve, he formed the inner circle of the English followers of Auguste Comte, whose General View of Positivism he translated in 1865. For more than twenty years he served as a metropolitan medical inspector to the Local Government Board, and in 1892 he delivered the Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians.
Everything about John Henry Bridges →- Occupation
- philosopher, medical administrator
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- 1832
- Died
- June 15, 1906