R. H. Tawney

Richard Henry Tawney was born in 1880 in Calcutta, India, the son of the Sanskrit scholar Charles Henry Tawney. He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford. After university he lived at Toynbee Hall, a settlement house in a poor area of London, and he became a tutor for the Workers' Educational Association, teaching evening classes to working people in towns such as Rochdale. He served in the First World War and was wounded twice on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916. He later taught at the London School of Economics for many years and became professor of economic history. A Christian socialist and member of the Labour Party, he argued in The Acquisitive Society (1920) and Equality (1931) that society should value service and fellowship above the pursuit of wealth. In Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926), he traced how religious thought in England moved from condemning greed to accepting the pursuit of profit, building on the ideas of Max Weber. He died in London in 1962.

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Faith: A Christian socialist and regular churchgoer whose faith was a personal matter. Source: Wikipedia