FAWCETT, HENRY, b. England, 1833; educated at Trinity hall, Cambridge, of which he was a scholar; graduated with high mathematical honors in 1856, and was elected a fellow in the same year. Mr. Fawcett was totally deprived of his sight in 1858 by an accident when shooting. Having written and published A Manual of Polit ical Economy; the Economical Position of the British Laborer; and having been an exten sive contributor of articles on economic and political science to various magazines and reviews, he was elected, in 1863, professor of political economy in the university of Cambridge. He unsuccessfully contested for a parliamentary seat, on liberal principles, Southwark in 1857; the borough of Cambridge in 1862; and Brighton in Feb., 1864; but he was returned for the last-named constituency in 1865, and was re-elected in 1868. He was unseated at Brighton at the general election of Feb., 1874, and was elected for Hackney in April of the same year. A new and revised edition of his Manual of Polit
ical Economy was published in 1869, with two new chapters on "National Education," and "The Poor Laws and their Influence, on Pauperism;" and another edition with some additional chapters was published in 1874. He has since published Pauperism— Its Causes and Remedies; Speeches on some Current Political Questions; and Free Trade and Protection. Prof. F. married Millicent, daughter of Newson Garrett, of Alde burgh. Suffolk, April 23, 1867. Mrs. Fawcett, who was born in 1847, published, in 1869, Political Economy for Beginners; in 1872, Mr. and Mrs. Fawcett published a joint volume of essays and lectures on political and economical subjects; in 1874, Mrs. Faw cett took an active• part in advocating the extension of the parliamentary suffrage to those women who fulfill the qualifications of property and residence demanded of electors.