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L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks
1860–1955
A thoughtful English educator, philosopher, and Unitarian minister, he became a widely read public voice in Britain between the world wars. His books and essays bring big moral and spiritual questions down to everyday human scale.
4 Audiobooks
Religious Perplexities
by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks
All Men are Ghosts
by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks
Mad Shepherds, and Other Human Studies
by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks
The international crisis in its ethical and psychological aspects : Lectures delivered in February and March, 1915, under the scheme for imperial studies in the University of London, at Bedford college for women
by Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, Bernard Bosanquet, A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks, Gilbert Murray, George Frederick Stout
About the author
Born in Nottingham in 1860, Lawrence Pearsall Jacks studied at the University of London, Manchester New College, and Harvard. He first worked in education, then became a Unitarian minister, building a reputation as a clear and humane speaker and writer.
Jacks is best remembered for the range of his public work. He served as principal of Manchester College, Oxford, from 1915 to 1931, and edited the influential Hibbert Journal for decades. Through those roles, he helped shape discussions of religion, ethics, education, and public life in the early twentieth century.
His writing was known for being accessible, reflective, and closely connected to ordinary experience rather than abstract system-building. That mix of scholarship, moral seriousness, and plain style helped make him a notable figure in British intellectual and religious life well into the 1940s.