Toynbee
Toynbee names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Toynbee ARNOLD, an English re- English former
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ARNOLD, an English re- English former; born in London, England, Aug. 23, 1852. His early acquirements were mostly in the direction of modern literature and philosophy. He spent two years at a military college, but left on finding that he had mistaken his profession. During the four years he spent at Oxford he became a prominent figure. Endowed with the gift of fluent speech, he began to address audiences of working men; and to help them, took up residence in Commercial Road, Whitechapel, in 1875, and associated himself with the religious work carried on there by the Rev. S. A. Barnett. From the inspiration of his example and teaching during this period sprang the idea of Toynbee Hall. He died in 1883, owing to overstrain following on two lectures directed against Henry George's "Progress and Poverty." A course of lectures delivered at Oxford between 1881-1882 on the economic history of England, along with other popular addresses, was published in 1884 under the title of "The Industrial Revolution," with Memoir by Jowett.
Toynbee PAGET, an English educator and writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
PAGET, an English educator and writer; born in 1855, at Wembledon, near London. He was educated at Haileybury College, Hertfordshire, and Balliol College, Oxford, and worked as private tutor from 1878 to 1892. He has made himself particularly noted by his studies of Dante. His works include: "Specimens of Old French"; "Historical French Grammar"; " Ricerche e Note Dantesche"; "Critical Text of the Divine Commedia"; "Life of Dante"; "Dante Studies and Researches"; "Dante in English Literature, from Chaucer to Cary"; "A Concise Dictionary of People, Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante"; "The Correspondence of Gray, Walpole, West , and Ashton."
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's 1921 lists two Toynbees, and misses the one most readers now mean: Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889-1975), nephew of the reformer described here, who was still a young Foreign Office hand in 1921 and went on to write the twelve-volume "A Study of History" (1934-1961), a comparative account of the rise and fall of civilizations that made him a household name and put him on the cover of Time in 1947 — before falling sharply out of academic favour. The reformer Arnold Toynbee's legacy is more durable than the entry could know: Toynbee Hall, founded in Whitechapel in 1884 in his memory, is still there, and his phrase "the Industrial Revolution" became the standard name for the period. Paget Toynbee, written up as a living man, died in 1932; his Dante reference books were still being revised for modern use decades later, notably his "Concise Dictionary," and his editions of Horace Walpole's correspondence remain a starting point for scholars.
Written for this edition, 2026.