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Charles Neaves (1800–1876), also known as Lord Neaves, was a Scottish theologian, judge and writer. He served as Rector of the University of St Andrews and as a judge of the Scottish Court of Session, the supreme court of Scotland. He was known as one of the early analysts of the history of evolution and is often quoted regarding the subjects of evolution and women's rights. A judge or justice is an official who presides over a court. ...
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Life
 Seal of the Court of Session, Scotland © Crown Copyright Neaves was born in Edinburgh in 1800, in which city he completed all of his education, he became a member of the Scottish Bar at age 22. He married Eliza Macdonald in 1835. From 1841 to 1845, he was Advocate Depute, and from 1845 to 1852 sheriff, of the Orkney and Shetland islands. He became solicitor-general for Scotland in 1853, and served judge of the Court of Session from 1853 to 1858. From 1858 to his death, he was Lord of Justiciary, Scotland's supreme criminal court. Neaves lived the majority of his life in Edinburgh, but when associated with the Justiciary Court, he travelled to Glasgow thrice yearly and Lord Neaves (although elderly and almost without hearing capability by the 1875) acquired a reputation in Glascow as a man of justice and evenness.[1] Image File history File links Court_of_Session_Seal. ...
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Charles Neaves had acknowledged skills as a composer of verse. He was a director of Edinburgh's Philosophical Institution and a president of the Heriot-Watt Institution. From 1872 to 1874, he held the post of Rector at the University of St Andrews, the oldest university in Scotland. The Rector chairs meetings of the University Court, the governing body of the University of St Andrews. Neaves was a regular author of poetry and essays to Blackwood's Magazine, only a fraction of his work having been republished.[2]. Representation of a university class, 1350s. ...
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Evolutionary analyst As a judge of the Court of Session, Neaves was familiar with one of his predecessors, James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, to whom he credited the origination of the concepts of the theory of evolution[3]. In 1875, Neaves published a poem within a book of verse[4][5] to establish this point: James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714 - May 26, 1799) was a Scottish judge, scholar and eccentric. ...
| | Though Darwin now proclaims the law
And spreads it far abroad, O!
The man that first the secret saw
Was honest old Monboddo.
The architect precedence takes
Of him that bears the hod, O!
So up and at them, Land of Cakes,
We'll vindicate Monboddo | | In another instance he elaborates on Monboddo's writings again in Blackwood's Magazine, indicating the clarity with which Monboddo foresaw evolutionary theory: Image File history File links Cquote1. ...
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| | The rise of every man he loved to trace,
Up to the very pod O!
And, in baboons, our parent race
Was found by old Monboddo.
Their A, B, C, he made them speak,
And learn their qui, quae, quod, O!
Till Hebrew, Latin, Welsh, and Greek
They knew as well's Monboddo! | | Image File history File links Cquote1. ...
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Poet and critic Not only did Neaves produce poetry but he was a prolific critic, often in venues such as Blackwood's Magazine. One of his thematic elements was virtue, which naturally tied to his theological roots. He also conducted critiques of others' poetry based upon how their attitudes deviated from virtue and a common theme of under-recognition of women, as in the scalding criticism of the poet Thomas Carew.[6] Thomas Carew (pronounced Carey) (1595 - 1645?) was an English poet. ...
Quotations In Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Quote number 6171),[7] as published originally in Darwin's The Origin of Species, he quipped on the subject of evolution: Bartletts Familiar Quotations, often simply called Bartletts, is an American reference work that is the longest-lived and most widely distributed collection of quotations. ...
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| | Pouter, tumbler and fantail are from the same source;
The racer and hack may be traced to one horse;
So men were developed from monkeys of course,
Which nobody can deny. | | This quote became so famous in that early era that the authorship of the quotation became a matter of public dispute. Although Bartlett and Darwin clearly attributed the quotation to Neaves, Zachary Macaulay argued that he had made this statement three years earlier. Image File history File links Cquote1. ...
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Lord Neaves may have also been an early thinker on the issue of women's rights with the following quote, that would have bordered on heresy in his era: Heresy, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a theological or religious opinion or doctrine maintained in opposition, or held to be contrary, to the Catholic or Orthodox doctrine of the Christian Church, or, by extension, to that of any church, creed, or religious system, considered as orthodox. ...
| | So I wonder a woman, the Mistress of Hearts,
Should ascent to aspire to be Master of Arts;
A Ministering Angel in Woman we see,
And an Angel need cover no other Degree.
—O why should a Woman not get a Degree? | | Image File history File links Cquote1. ...
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References - ^ Mitchell Library, Glascow, Scotland, Accession 4BAI
- ^ British Authors of the 19th Century (1936)
- ^ Watt, Archibald, A Goodly Heritage, Halcon Printing Ltd., Stonehaven, UK (1985)
- ^ "The Memory of Monboddo: An Excellent New Song," Blackwood's Magazine 90 (Sept. 1861): 363-64
- ^ Neaves, Charles, Lord Neaves, Songs and Verses, Fourth Edition, London p5 (1875)
- ^ Charles Neaves, "Carew and Herrick," in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. CCLXXXIV, June, 1839, pp. 782-94. Reprinted in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Vol. 13
- ^ Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1855
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