A. W. Benn

Alfred William Benn (1843–1915) was an agnostic and an honorary associate of the Rationalist Press Association. His book ''A History of Modern Philosophy'' (first published in 1912) was republished in the Thinker's Library series in 1930.

He was the author of ''The Greek Philosophers'' (2 vols, 1882); ''The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century'' (2 vols, 1906); and ''The History of Ancient and Modern Philosophy'' (2 vols, 1912).

Benn was also a member of the London Positivist Society and a friend of the lawyer and positivist Vernon Lushington. Lushington's daughter Susan recorded in her diary on 3 September 1889 that Benn and his wife visited the Lushington's Surrey home - Pyports, Cobham - and how Mrs Benn told her "how she came to be a positivist." Provided by Wikipedia