Charles William Hendel American educator and Professor of Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics at Yale University was born on 16 December 1890 in Reading Pennsylvania the son of Charles William and Emma Leiniger (Stolz) Hendel.

Mary B. Hesse was born on 15 October 1924 in Reigate England. She was educated at the Imperial College of Science and Technology London and received her PhD there in 1948. She also earned a MS from University College London in 1949.

Ernest William Hobson, eldest son of William Hobson (founder, part owner and editor of the regional newspaper Derbyshire Advertiser), was born 27 October 1856 in Derby. He spent his early schooling at Derby school where he showed little promise in his early years. However, this perception of him changed when, outstandingly, at the age of thirteen, he received a distinction in the Cambridge Junior Local Examinations in mathematics, natural sciences, French and music.

Herbert Arthur Hodges was born on 4 January 1905 in Sheffield to a travelling businessman and a primary school teacher. He was raised in Yorkshire and attended the King Edward VII School in Sheffield. He went on to study Classics at Balliol College Oxford attaining a first in honour moderations in 1924 and then the same in literae humaniores in 1926.

On 4 January 1994 one of the leading Christian historians of science in the world, and one of only two honorary members of the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA), passed away. It was a passing largely unrecognized in the Anglo-Saxon world, a response which was disproportionate to the influence that Dutch professor Reijer Hooykaas’ writing and lecturing activities had on many in the United Kingdom and North America.

Michael Ignatieff is an international scholar of human rights a novelist and from 2006––2011 had been a Canadian legislator rising to head of the Liberal Party in 2009. He lost his seat and resigned his leadership post in 2011 after the party’s wide election defeats. Before entering politics Ignatieff taught at the University of Toronto the University of British Columbia Cambridge University the London School of Economics the l’École des Hautes Études in Paris the University of California and finally at Harvard University.

A towering figure in philology and classics in the early twentieth century, Werner Jaeger was born 30 July 1888 in Lobberich, Germany, to Karl August Jaeger, a manager in a textile factory, and his wife, Helene. After school at Lobberich and at the Thomas à Kempis Gymnasium in Kempen, Jaeger attended the University of Marburg for a semester, where he encountered a Plato mediated by the Neo-Kantians. He completed his Ph.D. at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1911, writing a dissertation on Aristotle’s Metaphysics that made a seismic impact in Aristotle studies.

William James was born in New York City on 11 January 1842. His father, a man of independent means gained through inheritance, was associated with Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and their transcendentalist circle. At the behest of his father, James received an unorthodox education. The young man attended ten different schools during a period of eight years in New York and also studied in London, Geneva, Paris, Dresden and Boston. By the time he had completed his secondary education he had attained fluency in five languages.

Psychologist Philip Johnson-Laird was born in Leeds, England, on 12 October 1936. He married Maureen Sullivan in 1959, and their marriage produced two children. In 1961 Johnson-Laird entered University College, London, as a psychology student and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1967. His doctoral research was supervised by Peter Wason, with whom he collaborated on his first book, The Psychology of Reasoning. During and following his doctoral studies, Johnson-Laird served as a lecturer at University College until taking up a post at the University of Sussex in 1973.