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Graham Wallas was born on 31 May 1858, the fifth child and elder son in a family of nine children. His father, Gilbert Innis Wallas (1821–90), was, at the time of Graham’s birth, a curate in Bishopwearmouth in Durham. But when Graham was still a small child, in 1861, the family moved to Barnstaple in Devon, where Gilbert Wallas was appointed vicar. His upbringing in a clerical household, in a rural backwater, was the most important single influence in the formation of Wallas’ system of values.
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Introduction to John Ruskin, The Two Paths (London: 1907) reprinted in Men and Ideas, 75–80.
H. W. Nevinson, Changes and Chances (London: 1923) 30.
M.J. Wiener, Between Two Worlds: The Political Thought of Graham Wallas (Oxford 1971) 8.
‘L. T. Hobhouse’, a review of J. A. Hobson and Morris Ginsberg, L. T. Hobhouse: His Life and Work, New Statesman and Nation, 25 April 1931, 326.
‘The Education of Beatrice Webb’, a review of Beatrice Webb, My Apprenticeship, The Nation, 38, 6 March 1926, 779.
Sidney Webb, ‘Graham Wallas’, Economica, 38(4), 1932, 403.
From a letter to Archibald Henderson, 3 January 1905, in Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters, 1898–1910 (London: 1972) 490.
Beatrice Webb, Our Partnership (London: 1948) 123. Italics in original.
Max Beer, A History of British Socialism (London: 1953) two-volume reprint, II, 280.
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Sir Sydney Caine, A History of the Foundation of the London School of Economics and Political Science (London: 1963).
Beatrice Webb, Our Partnership (London: 1948) 86. Italics in the original.
Wallas’ original lectureship was designated the ‘Hutchinson Trust Lectureship’, because he was paid by the Trust instead of by the School. (See F. A. Hayek, ‘The London School of Economics and Political Science, 1895–1945’, Economica, New Series, 31(1), 1946, 3.)
H.J. Laski, ‘Lowes Dickinson and Graham Wallas’ (obituary notices), Political Quarterly, 3(4), 1932, 464.
‘The Village Tragedy’, Wallas’ review of J. L. and Barbara Hammond, The Village Labourer, 1760–1832, in The Nation, 11 November 1911, 248.
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Qualter, T.H. (1980). From Classical Scholar to Political Scientist. In: Graham Wallas and the Great Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04923-3_1
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