Thomas Hobbes from Ancient and Modern Celebrated freethinkers by Charles Bradlaugh, A. Collins, and J. Watts and edited by Charles Bradlaugh. 1877. A Brief Introduction to Famous Philosophers. This distinguished Freethinker was born on the 5th of April, 1588, at Malmesbury; hence his cognomen of "the philosopher of Malmesbury." In connection with his birth, we are told that his mother, being a loyal Protestant, was so terrified at the rumored approach...