Victoria, Lady Welby

Victoria, Lady Welby
Photograph by G.C. Beresford
Born(1837-04-27)27 April 1837
London, England
Died29 March 1912(1912-03-29) (aged 74)
SpouseWilliam Earle Welby-Gregory
Children3, including Nina
Parent(s)Charles Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie
Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolBritish pragmatism[1]
Main interests
Philosophy of language, logic
Notable ideas
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The House Builders (Portraits of Sir W.E. & The Hon. Lady Welby-Gregory). Painting (1880) by Frank Dicksee

Victoria, Lady Welby (27 April 1837 – 29 March 1912), more correctly Lady Welby-Gregory,[3] was a self-educated British philosopher of language, musician and watercolourist.

  1. ^ James McElvenny, "Ogden and Richards' The Meaning of Meaning and early analytic philosophy", Language Sciences 41:212–221, January 2014.
  2. ^ Cheryl Misak, Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein, Oxford University Press, 2016, p. 3.
  3. ^ She never adopted the additional name of Gregory and was always known as Lady Welby