John Stuart Mill

Abstract

Mill was a precocious child, intensively educated by his father at a tender age. He is reputed to have begun Greek at three, and was fluent in the Latin authors by the age of seven. He became a Clerk at India House, both a disciple and a critic of Jeremy Bentham, and formed the Utilitarian Society which met during the years 1823–6 in order to read and discuss essays and papers. In 1825 he edited Bentham’s Treatise upon Evidence.