DEATH OF DR. C. E. M. JOAD

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27012, 11 April 1953, Page 7

DEATH OF DR. C. E. M. JOAD

LEADING BRITISH PHILOSOPHER (Rec. 10 n-m.) LONDON, April 9. Dr. Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, one of the leading British philosophers of this century, died at his home in London this morning. He was 61. Dr. Joad was bom on August 12, 1891, and was educated at Blundell’s School, Tiverton. He furthered his studies in Balliol College, Oxford, on a classical scholarship, and was the John Locke Scholar at Oxford in moral philosophy in 1914. He took a Master of Arts degree. He entered the Board of Trade in 1914, and was later in the Ministry of Labour until his retirement in 1930, when he became Head of the Department of Philosophy, Birkbeck College, University of London. He became a Doctor of Literature from this university in 1936. Since he retired in 1946, he had been a farmer. Dr. Joad was actively concerned with the movement for women’s suffrage when it was at its height, and took part in several acts of violence by extremists. He was an extreme pacifist, and was for some time a member of the Fabian Society. Among his best-known books were: “Guide to the Philosophy of Morals and Politics,” “Common Sense Theology,” “The Testament of Joad,” and “The Present and Future of Religion.”