Walter Bagehot

Bio:

Walter Bagehot was a British journalist, businessman, and essayist and who wrote extensively about government, economics, literature and race.

He was born in Langport, Somerset, England, on 3 February 1826. He attended University College London (UCL), where he studied mathematics, and in 1848 earned a master's degree in moral philosophy and His father, Thomas Watson Bagehot, was managing director and vice-chairman of Stuckey's Bank. In 1861 he became the head of The Economist. In 17 years he served as its editor,

In 1867 he wrote the English Constitution, a book that explores the nature of the UK Constitution, especially its Parliament and Monarchy.he also wrote Physics and Politics (in which he examines how civilisations sustain themselves, arguing that in their earliest phase civilisations are very much in opposition to the values of modern liberalism, insofar as they are sustained by conformism and military success, but once they are secured it is possible for them to mature into systems which allow for greater diversity and freedom.

He never fully recovered from a bout of pneumonia he suffered in 1867, and he died in 1877 from complications of what was said to be a cold.