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The Edgeworth family, which settled in Ireland in the 1580s, was distinguished, descending from Francis Edgeworth, joint Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper in 1606, who inherited a fortune from his brother Edward Edgeworth, Bishop of Down and Connor. Richard Lovell Edgeworth was a descendant, through his mother, of the English judge Sir Salathiel ...
Francis Edgeworth's parents were Rosa Florentina Eroles, who was Spanish, and Francis Beaufort Edgeworth, who came from an Irish family with strong literary connections. His grandfather was Richard Lovell Edgeworth, an author, inventor and educationalist who was married four times and had 22 children. Among these 22 children were Edgeworth's ...
FRANCIS EDGEWORTH, Clerk of the Hanaper, 1619, who married Jane, daughter of Edward Tuite, and sister of Sir Edmond Tuite, and by her (who founded an Irish convent near St Germain, near Paris) had a son JOHN, his heir; daughters Anne; Mary; Margaret.
Edgeworth was born in 1845 in Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland into a large, well-connected and eccentric Anglo-Irish landowning family. The famous novelist Maria Edgeworth, of Castle Rackrent fame, was his (elderly) aunt.
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Francis Ysidro Edgeworth(1845–1926) was born in Edgeworthstown, in County Longford, Ireland, into the so-called “Anglo-Irish” (i.e., Protestant English) landed aristocracy, which ruled Ireland at the time. Edgeworth’s father’s family was of French Huguenot extraction, while his mother was born in Spain. She was living in England as a war refugee, w...
On the strength of his publications, Edgeworth was appointed a professor in economics at King’s College London in 1888. In 1891, Edgeworth moved to Oxford University, where he held the title of Drummond Professor in Political Economy. He was also elected a Fellow of All Souls College, where he remained until retiring with emeritus status in 1922. A...
Edgeworth made seminal contributions to both mathematics—especially, statistics and probability—and political economy—especially, equilibrium theory. Edgeworth was influential (along with his friend, William Stanley Jevons, and Alfred Marshall) in the transition from classical to neo-classical economics. Building upon work by Léon Walras, Vilfredo ...
“The Hedonical Calculus,” Mind, 4: 394–408 (1879). Mathematical Psychics: An Essay on the Application of Mathematics to the Moral Sciences(1881). “The Law of Error,” Philosophical Magazine, 16: 300–309 (1883). “The Method of Least Squares,” Philosophical Magazine, 16: 360–375 (1883). “On the Method of Ascertaining a Change in the Value of Gold,” Jo...
Ansa Eceiza, Miren Maite and Francisco Gómez García, “William Stanley Jevons and Francis Ysidro Edgeworth: Two Pioneers of Happiness Economics,” Iberian Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 6: 175–187 (2015). Baccini, Alberto, “F.Y. Edgeworth’s Treatise on Probabilities,” History of Political Economy, 41: 143–162 (2009). Barbé, Lluís, Franci...
May 9, 2018 · Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845–1926) was raised on the family estate of Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland. His father died when Edgeworth was two years old. Edgeworth studied under tutors and spent considerable time reading and memorizing the classics and English poetry.
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The economist and statistician we know as Francis Ysidro Edgeworth was born in 1845, the son of Francis Beaufort Edgeworth (1809-1846) and Rosa Florentina Eroles (1815-1864). His paternal grandfather, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817), was thrice widowed and altogether had twenty-two children.
