10 Facts About Thorold Rogers

James Edwin Thorold Rogers, known as Thorold Rogers, was an English economist, historian and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1886.

Thorold Rogers deployed historical and statistical methods to analyse some of the key economic and social questions in Victorian England.

Thorold Rogers was educated at King's College London and Magdalen Hall, Oxford.

Thorold Rogers devoted himself to classical and philosophical tuition in Oxford with success, and his publications included an edition of Aristotle's Ethics.

Thorold Rogers was fond of writing sarcastic epigrams, and of reciting them to his friends, and this habit produced a characteristic retort from Jowett.

Thorold Rogers became the first Tooke Professor of Statistics and Economic Science at King's College London, serving in this role from 1859 until his death.

Thorold Rogers served as President of the first day of the 1875 Co-operative Congress.

Thorold Rogers was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for Southwark in 1880 and held the seat until it was divided under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885.

Thorold Rogers lectured in political economy at Worcester College, Oxford in 1883 and was re-elected Drummond professor in 1888.

Thorold Rogers married Ann Susannah Charlotte Reynolds, daughter of Henry Revell Reynolds, Treasury Solicitor, in December 1854.