| AdminHistory | John Austin (1790-1859) was an English legal philosopher, influential as the creator of the school of analytical jurisprudence and the approach to law known as 'legal positivism'. He was appointed Professor of Jurisprudence at UCL, then the newly founded University of London, in 1826. His influential friends included Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle.
John Arthur Roebuck (1802-1879) was an Indian-born British politician. He was an independent Liberal Member of Parliament for Bath in 1832-1847, and for Sheffield in 1849-1868 and 1874-1879, and intimate with various radical and utilitarian reformers, including Jeremy Bentham, George Grote, Lord Brougham and John Stuart Mill. |