Francis Y. Edgeworth
| Francis Ysidro Edgeworth | |
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8 February 1845 Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland |
| Died | 13 February 1926 (aged 81) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England |
| Fields | Philosophy, political economist |
| Alma mater |
Trinity College, Dublin Balliol College, Oxford |
| Notable awards | Guy Medal (Gold, 1907) |
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Francis Ysidro Edgeworth FBA (8 February 1845 – 13 February 1926) was an Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist who made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s. From 1891 onward he was appointed the founding editor of The Economic Journal.
Edgeworth was born in Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland. He did not attend school, but was educated by private tutors at the Edgeworthstown estate until he reached the age to enter university. His father, Francis Beaufort Edgeworth, was descended from French Huguenots and "was a restless philosophy student at Cambridge on his way to Germany when he decided to elope with a teenage Catalonian refugee [Rosa Florentina Eroles] he met on the steps of the British Museum. One of the outcomes of their marriage was Ysidro Francis Edgeworth (the name order was reversed later)...."Richard Lovell Edgeworth was his grandfather, and the writer Maria Edgeworth his aunt.
As a student at Trinity College, Dublin, and Balliol College, Oxford, Edgeworth studied ancient and modern languages. A voracious autodidact, he studied mathematics and economics only after he had completed university. He qualified as a barrister in London in 1877 but did not practise.
On the basis of his publications in economics and mathematical statistics in the 1880s, Edgeworth was appointed to a chair in economics at King's College London in 1888, and in 1891, he was appointed Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford University. Also in 1891 he was appointed the founding editor of The Economic Journal. He continued as editor or joint-editor until his death 35 years later.
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