Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900), English philosopher and educator, is today most famous for his Methods of Ethics, first published in 1874, and considered by C.D. Broad among others to be the greatest single work on ethics in English. history of political institutions and psychical research. He was also active in university politics, economics and administration, playing a large part in the founding of the first college for women, Newnham College, Oxford...