C. Delisle Burns
| C. Delisle Burns | |
|---|---|
| Born | 26 January 1879 Saint Kitts and Nevis, West Indies |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist.[dubious ] Dorking, England |
| Alma mater | Christ's College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Atheist and secularist writer and lecturer |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret Hanny |
| Children | Two |
Cecil Delisle Burns (26 January 1879 - 22 January 1942) was a leading English atheist and secularist writer and lecturer.
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.
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- British humanists
- British atheists
- People associated with Conway Hall Ethical Society
- 1879 births
- 1942 deaths
- British educational theorists
- Academics of Birkbeck, University of London
- Academics of the London School of Economics
- Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
