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18-486: The society was founded by Richard Congreve (1818–1899) in 1867 as a philosophical and political body. By 1870, the group under Congreve was based at Chapel Street Hall in London. The barrister Frederic Harrison , who had met Congreve at Wadham College, Oxford , was a founding member, but he found it difficult to adhere to Congreve's rigid Comtism . In 1878 the group suffered a schism. That summer, Congreve dissolved

36-460: A publication now in the public domain :  Rigg, James McMullen (1901). " Congreve, Richard ". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement) . London: Smith, Elder & Co. Leamington Hastings Leamington Hastings is a small village and larger civil parish in Warwickshire , England. The civil parish covers Leamington Hastings itself, plus

54-583: Is now called Leamington Spa , or Royal Leamington Spa, appears as Lemington hastings . The first mention of a post office in Leamington Hastings was in September 1845, when a type of postmark known as an undated circular handstamp was issued. The village post office closed in May 1979. Leamington Hastings Infant School is located in the village. The Victorian philosopher Richard Congreve

72-509: The Afghans was unjust. Richard Congreve Richard Congreve (4 September 1818 – 5 July 1899) was the first English philosopher to openly espouse the Religion of Humanity , the godless form of religious humanism that was introduced by Auguste Comte , as a distinct form of positivism . Congreve was the first thinker to offer a systematic policy, on positivist lines, to dismantle

90-725: The British Empire. In 1859, after issuing controversial anti-imperialist pamphlets on Gibraltar and India, he delivered his 'first sermon' as a Positivist apostle and 'vicar' of the Religion of Humanity. He later founded the London Positivist Society in 1867 and, after a schism with his closest followers in 1878, he broke off to formally found the Comtist Church of Humanity . He was born at Leamington Hastings , Warwickshire, on 4 September 1818. He

108-562: The Disciples of Auguste Comte; E.S. Beesly's Remarks on Dr Congreve's Circular; and John Henry Bridges' Appeal to English Positivists. Beesly, Bridges, Harrison, and Vernon Lushington , among others, carried on as the London Positivist Society, expanding the group's membership to 93 members by 1891. In 1881, London Positivist Society boasted a new home at Fleur-de-lis Court, off Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, London. It

126-690: The Society 1880–1886), who resigned in 1886 over the Irish home rule debate. In 1934 the London Positivist Society merged with the English Positivist Committee, taking the latter's name. The Society's presidents included In 1878, the organization published a manifesto protesting the Second Anglo-Afghan War . Edward Spenser Beesly signed the manifesto, which was one page long, and believed that attacking

144-463: The Society, for he wished to make sure everyone involved in the group advocated Auguste Comte 's Religion of Humanity . He had founded the ' Church of Humanity ' in January 1859 and was dissatisfied with the reluctance of the society to support his cause. In 1878, the Society's members published a range of attacks on one another, including Congreve's Circular Addressed to all my Coreligionists, to all

162-635: The barrister Frederic Harrison ; the historian E. S. Beesly ; the physicians Evan Buchanan Baxter and John Henry Bridges . Others affiliated to the group in some way included the sociologists Charles Booth , Patrick Geddes , Victor Branford , and Sybella Gurney ; Henry Tompkins (1870–1954); Donald Fincham (1916–1969); George Henry Lewes (1817–1878); Frederick William Walsh (1879–1923), who had been paralysed in an industrial accident but whose mind remained sharp; Paul Juste Decours; and Benjamin Fossett Lock (honorary secretary of

180-555: The freedom which this separation allowed him to elaborate a higher form of ritual. Despite failing health, he maintained his unfashionable opinions, and kept up his priestly functions, until his death, at Hampstead, on 5 July 1899. He was cremated and then buried in Brookwood Cemetery . In 1856, he married Mary, daughter of John Bury of Warwick. He may or may not be related to Galfred Congreve . Congreve published: [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from

198-475: The influence of Comte stayed with him. He adopted the entire positivist system, including the religious cult. He resigned his fellowship (1855), left Oxford, and soon afterwards founded the positivist community in London. Congreve studied medicine, and in 1866 was admitted member of the Royal College of Physicians . In the early days of the positivist movement he took the major part in the establishment of

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216-599: The nearby hamlets of Broadwell , Hill and Kites Hardwick . Its population in the 2011 census was 440, increasing slightly to 466 at the 2021 census. The village is about 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Rugby and west of the A426 road between Rugby and Southam . To the north of the village is the Draycote Water reservoir. Administratively, Leamington Hastings forms part of the Borough of Rugby . The name of

234-754: The propaganda in Chapel Street, Lamb's Conduit Street , London, and for some years worked harmoniously with Frederic Harrison and other leading positivists. In 1878, however, he issued a circular (17 June) in which he claimed for himself an authority independent of Pierre Laffitte , Comte's principal executor, and as such then universally acknowledged as the head of the positivist community. Some positivists joined him; others, among whom were Frederic Harrison , John Henry Bridges , Edward Spencer Beesly , Vernon Lushington , and James Cotter Morison , remained in union with Laffitte, and opened Newton Hall, Fetter Lane, London, as their place of meeting. Congreve used

252-576: The schools was naturally followed by election to a fellowship at his college; he was a master at Rugby from 1845 to 1848,; he resided as tutor for the next ten years. His influence upon his pupils is said to have been singularly bracing, morally as well as intellectually. The turning-point in Congreve's life was a visit to Paris shortly after the French Revolution of 1848 . He there met Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire and Auguste Comte , and

270-541: The village is due to it being just south of the River Leam , and the 'Hastings' part is due to the 'Hastang' family, the medieval lords of the manor . The village contains the historic Church of All Saints and some preserved 17th-century almshouses , which date from 1608, but were extensively restored during 1980-81. The Christopher Saxton map of Warwickshire (1637 edition) includes a curious transposition: Leamington Hastings appears as Lemington priors , and what

288-463: Was born at Leamington Hastings. A branch of the Sitwell family lived at Leamington Hastings, where they had inherited their holdings from a Wheler heiress. Edward Sacheverell Wilmot was lord of the manor from 1801 to 1819. From them the later Wilmot-Sitwell family of Horsley, Derbyshire descended. Rev. Degge Wilmot Sitwell, who lived at The Manor House at Leamington Hastings, served as vicar of

306-634: Was called Newton Hall after Sir Isaac Newton, who had first acquired it for the Royal Society Museum. Newton Hall became a popular Positivist center distinct from Congreve's Chapel Street Hall 'Church of Humanity' for the years to come. In 1883, the Newton Hall group formed a choir for positivist ceremonies, and they appointed Henry Holmes to compose a cantata of George Eliot 's poem, 'The Choir Invisible' for these purposes. Those who were elected members included, at one time or another,

324-580: Was educated under Thomas Arnold at Rugby School , and at the University of Oxford , where he gained a scholarship at Wadham College, Oxford , matriculated on 23 February 1837, graduated B.A. (first class in literæ humaniores) in 1840, and proceeded M.A. in 1843. He was president of the Oxford Union in 1841. He came to Oxford a typical pupil of Arnold – high-minded, intensely earnest, and latitudinarian in his theological opinions. His success in

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