John Leofric Stocks

John Leofric Stocks DSO (26 October 1882 – 13 June 1937) was a British philosopher and was briefly Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool in 1937.

Biography

Stocks was born the sixth of twelve children to John Edward Stocks, the vicar of Market Harborough, Leicestershire and educated at Rugby School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He graduated in 1903 and in 1906 was an elected fellow and tutor of St. John's College, Oxford, where he remained, except for war service, until 1924. His war service was in the British Army with the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the First World War when he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for gallantry at Beaucourt. In 1924 he was elected professor of philosophy at the University of Manchester and in 1936 was appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Liverpool.

His professional philosophical interests were in Aristotelian studies and Epicureanism. He was president of the Aristotelian Society.

He died on a visit to Swansea in 1937. He had married Mary Danvers Brinton, who was later Baroness Stocks, with whom he had a son and two daughters.

References

• ‘STOCKS, John Leofric’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 14 Feb 2012 (subscription required)
• Internet Archive

External links

• Works written by or about John Leofric Stocks at Wikisource
• Works by John Leofric Stocks at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)