L. Gordon Rylands

Louis Gordon Rylands (10 July 1862 - 20 December 1942), best known as L. Gordon Rylands was a British criminologist and writer.

Rylands was born in Warrington, Lancashire. His father was the politician Peter Rylands.[1] He was educated at Charterhouse and University College London (B.A., B.Sc). After completing his studies, he was secretary of the family business, Rylands Brothers wire manufacturers from 1884 to 1887, then from 1897 to 1898 was science master at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne. He worked as a private tutor from 1898 to 1924. At the time of his death he was assistant registrar of Grimes's Manchester Tutorial College.[2] In 1887, he married Katherine Edwards; they had a daughter. Rylands was an uncle of the academic Dadie Rylands.[3]

Rylands authored the book Crime: Its Causes and Remedy (1889).[4][5] Rylands was best known as an advocate of the Christ myth theory. He denied the historicity of Jesus.[6][7]

Publications

gollark: Nowadays you can throw together a generic Twitter clone webapp in a weekend or so, after all.
gollark: Clearly we need a shiny new even MORE free social network.
gollark: Radio stuff is longer range without infrastructure, but mostly there is some (even developing countries apparently have quite good cellular coverage these days).
gollark: You can get on the internet with a £50 phone and free WiFi somewhere, radio still requires a bunch of specialised hardware.
gollark: Australia *and* south-east asia.

References

  1. "The Man of Philanthropy, Politics and Clogs". Warrington Museum & Art Gallery.
  2. Who was Who: A companion to Who's Who, A. & C. Black, 1967, pg 1015
  3. Who was Who: A companion to Who's Who, A. & C. Black, 1967, pg 1015
  4. P. S. R. (1890). Reviewed Work: Crime; Its Nature, Causes, Treatment, and Prevention by Sanford M. Green. Harvard Law Review 3 (8): 383.
  5. Falkner, Roland P. (1889). Reviewed Works: Penological and Preventive Principles, with Special Reference to Europe and America, etc. by William Tallack; Crime, its Causes and Remedy by L. Gordon Rylands. Political Science Quarterly 4 (2): 348-350.
  6. McCabe, Joseph. (1950). A Rationalist Encyclopaedia: A Book of Reference on Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, and Science. Watts & Co. p. 334. "In England the philosophic writer T. Whittaker, and L. G. Rylands, supported Robertson in denying the historicity of Jesus."
  7. Hawton, Hector. (1971). Controversy: The Humanist/Christian Encounter. Pemberton Books. p. 173
  8. Marcus, Ralph. (1942). Reviewed Work: The Beginnings of Gnostic Christianity by L. Gordon Rylands. Jewish Social Studies 4 (2): 172-173.
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