    philip henry wicksteed (25 october 1844 â 18 march 1927) is known primarily as an economist. he was also an english unitarian theologian, classicist, medievalist, and literary critic. ==family background== he was the son of charles wicksteed (1810â1885) and his wife jane (1814â1902), and was named after his distant ancestor, philip henry (1631â1696), the nonconformist clergyman and diarist.the descendants of rev. philip henry, m.a.: the swanwick branch to 1899. compiled by sarah lupton swanwick, a descendant in the seventh degree. james edmund jones, b.a., a descendant in the eighth degree. printed for private circulation. toronto, canada: the brown-searle printing co. 1899 his father was a clergyman within the same tradition of english dissent. his mother was born into the lupton family, a socially progressive, politically active dynasty of businessmen and traders, long established in leeds, a city both prosperous and squalid with the rapid growth of the industrial revolution. in 1835 wicksteed had taken up the ministry of the unitarian place of worship, mill hill chapel, right on the city's central square, and two years later the couple married. in 1841 his sister elizabeth married jane's brother arthur (1819â1867), also a unitarian minister; uncle arthur was, according to a family history, "the achilles of the leeds complete suffrage association"lupton, c.a. , the lupton family in leeds, wm. harrison and son 1965, p. 55â in other words, a tragic champion of the fight for universal suffrage; see chartism and henry vincent for more on the csa. one of their children, a first cousin to philip, was the maverick mp and mining engineer arnold lupton. jane was described as impractical but accomplished (sketching, painting, reciting poetry, etc.) and both the wicksteed siblings as "unitarians of vigorous mind and keen intelligence".lupton, c.a. , the lupton family in leeds, wm. harrison and son 1965, page 39 philip was one of nine children, including janet, who wrote, as mrs lewis, a memo
1844_births 1927_deaths Alumni_of_Harris_Manchester_College,_Oxford Alumni_of_University_College_London English_Unitarians English_economists