Published works Matthew Piers Watt Boulton

works under name

boulton s known works under name include:

essay on decline , fall of persian empire (awarded eton prize, 1839), 1839.
epigrammata numismate annuo dignata in prolusiones academicae praemiis annuiis dignatae et in curia cantabrigiensi recitatae comitiis maximis, 1828–1842, 15 parts, joannes smith , j. c. parker: cantabrigae, 1828–42, part 1841.
remarks on evidence communicated photographic society, 1863.
remarks concerning photographs supposed of date, london: bradbury , evans, 1864.
remarks concerning pictures supposed photographs of date (revised), london; bradbury , evans, 1865.
translations of book of homer s iliad; passages virgil, aristophanes, moschus, , catullus (in verse), london: chapman , hall, 1875.
translation of sixth book of virgil s aeneid , book viii, lines 652–713 (in verse), london: chapman , hall, 1877.
has metaphysical society raison d être? (does metaphysical society have reason exist? —a paper read before metaphysical society), london, 1878.
songs heine , other pieces (translated english verse m.p.w. boulton), 1880.
considerations on subject of solar heat, london: chapman , hall, 1890.
on solar or stellar heat, london: chapman , hall, 1891.

pseudonymous works

although no definitive proof known exist boulton published under pen name m.p.w. bolton, researcher , author alan brown wrote in metaphysical society: victorian minds in crisis, 1869–1880, boulton spelt bolton . brown perhaps convinced of since no biographical information exists m.p.w. bolton , bolton was, in fact, boulton s pseudonymous pen name. intriguingly, boulton s younger brother, montagu boulton (1824–1849), admitted cambridge university s inner temple (a law society) matthew bolton in october 1844. additionally, m.p.w. s distant ancestors surnames omitted u , spelling. included john bolton of lichfield, staffordshire, believed descended from, possibly grandson of robert bolton (1572–1631), rector of broughton, northamptonshire.

under alternate bolton spelling british museum lists several philosophical works (all published chapman & hall, had published of boulton s works), including:

examination of principles of scoto-oxonian (1861);
reply critique in saturday review on scoto-oxonian philosophy (1862);
letter t. collyns simon, esq., author of philosophical answer essays , reviews (1863);
inquisitio philosophica: examination of principles of kant , hamilton (1866);
examination of principles of scoto-oxonian philosophy: replies objectors (1869).

several of bolton writings fiercely attacked theological positions expounded scottish philosopher sir william hamilton , metaphysician henry longueville mansel, both argued god infinite , absolute . 1 possible reason alternate pen name in confronting authority figures may have been of deniability. edition of john stuart mill s examination of sir william hamilton s philosophy later led english political radical george grote examine bolton s inquisitio philosophica, , prompted mill write author scholar, read in history of philosophy and.... [shows] holds inductive school, both in philosophy , in consequences . mills thought work s author acute thinker , inquisitio able work .

kinzer s examination of same work led him firmer belief bolton , boulton 1 , same. additionally, letter m.p.w. bolton archived @ trinity college, cambridge, although biographical work listing of university s known students has no record of such person, of boulton. examination of other letters written both bolton , boulton hold handwriting scripts closely resemble each other.

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