John Cazenove

John Cazenove (1788–1879) was an English businessman and political economist.^[1]

Life

He was the elder brother of Philip Cazenove, who in 1823 founded Cazenove the firm of stockbrokers.^[2]

Cazenove was educated at Charterhouse School.^[2] He is thought by Patricia James to have met Robert Malthus through Charles Webb Le Bas.^[3]

After Malthus died in 1834, Cazenove applied for the teaching vacancy at the East India College. The position went to Richard Jones.^[4]

Works

Cazenove has been considered one of the "Cambridge Inductivist" group of intellectuals.^[5] As an economist he was a supporter of Malthus;^[6] and according to Pullen, he was the editor of the second edition (1836) of the Principles of Malthus.^[7] James comments that it is now impossible to know whether the views in that edition are those of Malthus or the editor.^[8]

In 1853, Cazenove revised Malthus's Definitions in Political Economy, which had first been published in 1827.^[9][10]

The list of publications by Cazenove is still not clarified by scholars. He was a reviewer for the British Critic, and at this period the custom was that reviews were unsigned.^[3] There is some debate about a series of reviews in the British Critic, ten from the years 1815 to 1824, that related to economic topics and apparently voiced views close to Malthus. One such review, Malthus on Political Economy, took the opportunity to enter the Malthus–Ricardo debate, attacking the inverse wage-profit relationship of David Ricardo.^[11] Some or all of these have been attributed to Cazenove. But the external evidence to show his authorship is absent. He is known to have reviewed works of John Ramsay McCulloch (1824) and Thomas Chalmers (1832). Of other publications, Cazenove wrote 11, of which seven were published anonymously.^[12]

In 1859 Cazenove edited the Literary Remains of Richard Jones. They were published with a preface by William Whewell.^[13]

Cazenove was also a chess player, and published a selection of games in 1817.^[14]

Family

Cazenove married in 1815 Harriet Hillyard Gibson (died 1835), daughter of James Gibson of Epsom.^[15][16]

The Anglican theologian and author, Rev John Gibson Cazenove DD FRSE (1822–1896), Chancellor of Edinburgh Cathedral,^[17] was their son.^[2]

References

• Patricia James (1979). Population Malthus: His Life and Times. Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 978-0-415-38113-0.

Notes

1. Noel W. Thompson; Nigel F. B. Allington (2010). English, Irish and Subversives Among the Dismal Scientists. Emerald Group Publishing. pp. 111–136. ISBN 978-0-85724-061-3. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
2. Pullen, J. M. "Cazenove, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48875. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
3. James, p. 355.
4. James, pp. 355–6.
5. Laura J. Snyder (15 November 2010). Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society. University of Chicago Press. pp. 279–80. ISBN 978-0-226-76735-2. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
6. Thomas Robert Malthus (1989). Principles of Political Economy. Cambridge University Press. p. lxi. ISBN 978-0-521-24775-7. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
7. Deborah A. Redman (1997). The Rise of Political Economy As a Science: Methodology and the Classical Economists. MIT Press. p. 274. ISBN 978-0-262-26425-9. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
8. James, p. 274.
9. Malthus, Thomas Robert (1853). Cazenove, John (ed.). Definitions in Political Economy (revised with remarks ed.). London: Simkin & Marshall.
10. Malthus, Thomas Robert (2016). Bocast, Alexander K (ed.). Definitions in Political Economy. McLean: Berkeley Bridge Press. ISBN 978-1-945208-01-0.Critical edition; compares Malthus's original work with Cazenove's edition.
11. James, pp. 291–2 and p. 487 note 45.
12. Noel W. Thompson; Nigel F. B. Allington (2010). English, Irish and Subversives Among the Dismal Scientists. Emerald Group Publishing. pp. 130–1 notes. ISBN 978-0-85724-061-3. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
13. James, p. 460.
14. chessgames.com, John Cazenove
15. Sir Richard Phillips (1815). The Monthly Magazine. Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper. p. 463. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
16. John Nichols (1835). The Gentleman's Magazine. E. Cave. p. 217. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
17. "The Discovery Service".