Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Clement Mansfield Ingleby (born October 29, 1823 in Edgbaston, now the city of Birmingham , † October 5, 1886 in Ilford , Essex ) was an English literary scholar.
Clement Mansfield Ingleby (spr. Inngl'bi), son of a respected trustee, studied mathematics and philosophy at Cambridge University , was professor of logic and metaphysics at the Midland Institute in his hometown from 1855-58 and became secretary in 1870, later vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature in London, where he died on October 5, 1886.
As one of the more important English Shakespeare researchers, Ingleby has not only written many contributions to the critical reviews, but also a number of valuable books:
- The Shakespeare fabrications (1859)
- A complete view of the Shakespeare controversy (1861)
- The still lion, an essay towards the restoration of Shakespeare's text (1867)
- What is Thomas Lodge about an actor? (1867)
- Shakespeare's century of prayse (1874)
- Shakespeare's allusion-books (1874)
- Shakespeare hermeneutics (1875)
- Shakespeare, the man and the book (1877)
- Occasional papers on Shakespeare (1881)
Ingleby was also a curator of Shakespeare's Birthplace as well as an active member of the New Shakespeare Society. He enriched the philosophical literature with the works: Outlines of theoretical logic (1856), An introduction to metaphysics (1869) and The revival of philosophy at Cambridge (1870).
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| SURNAME | Ingleby, Clement Mansfield |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 5, 1886 |
| Place of death | Ilford |