George Henry Radcliffe Parkinson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

George Henry Radcliffe Parkinson

philosopher and historian of philosophy

Date of Birth: 02-Nov-1923

Place of Birth: Tianjin, China

Date of Death: 01-Jan-2015

Profession: historian, academic, philosopher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

George Henry Radcliffe Parkinson (2 November 1923 – 2015) (known as Harry Parkinson), was a philosopher and historian of philosophy.Parkinson was born in 1923 in Tientsin, China, to British parents.
He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and Wadham College, Oxford, where he obtained a First Class Honours degree in Literae Humaniores in 1949, and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1952.
His doctoral thesis concerned Baruch (Benedictus de) Spinoza.
Later work focussed on Gottfried W.
(von) Leibniz.
In 1950 he was appointed Assistant Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading, under then Head of Department Professor H A Hodges, and he remained in the department until he retired.
He was made a Professor there in 1974, served as Head of Department from 1983 to 1989, and was made an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy upon his retirement.Best known for his work on the history of Philosophy, perhaps particularly for his work on Leibniz, Parkinson was closely associated with the journal Studia Leibnitiana from its inception in 1969, and became one of its editors in 1988.