C. Delisle Burns
Cecil Delisle Burns (26 January 1879 – 22 January 1942) was a leading English atheist and secularist writer and lecturer.
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 Signed photo of C. Delisle Burns c. 1923. (taken at Conway Hall Ethical Society Library and Archives) | |
| Born | 26 January 1879 |
| Died | 22 January 1942 (aged 62) Dorking, England |
| Alma mater | Christ's College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Atheist and secularist writer and lecturer |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret Hanny |
| Children | Two |
Early life
Burns was born in Saint Kitts and Nevis, West Indies[1] where his father was treasurer of St. Christopher-Nevis in the Leeward Islands. After leaving Christ's College, Cambridge, he was trained in Rome for the priesthood, but left the Church in 1908 and devoted time to the study of social problems in a wider sense.
He was appointed as a regular lecturer at South Place Ethical Society, at Conway Hall in London, in 1918 and continued to lecture there until his health deteriorated in September 1934.[2]
He was a lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London; the London School of Economics and as Stevenson Lecturer in Citizenship at Glasgow University.[3]
Bibliography
- International politics London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1920.
- Leisure and the Modern World London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1932.
- The Contact Between Minds: a metaphysical hypothesis London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923.
- The Horizon of Experience London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1933.
- The First Europe: a study of the establishment of medieval Christendom, A.D. 400-800 London: George Allen & Unwin, 1947.
- War and a changing civilisation, London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1934
References
- "Cecil Delisle Burns". Oxford Reference. OUP. Retrieved 28 November 2013.
- Gould, F. (March 1942). "Cecil Delisle Burns, M.A., D.Lit". The Monthly Record: 3–5.
- The Times, 23 January 1942