Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock

It was nice that it was him. He seems to have been a pretty casual wielder of the metal detector. What a turn-up for the books. • Mary Warnock is a philosopher and crossbench peer There is a reason that jewellery gets buried: because it...

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...house named after him. He was also the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1981 to 1985. Warnock married Mary Warnock, a philosophy fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford and later Baroness Warnock, in 1949. They had two...

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Helen Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, DBE , FBA (born 14 April 1924) is a British philosopher of morality , education and mind , and writer on existentialism. Warnock was born Mary Wilson, in Meadow House in the city of Winchester,...

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...as a leading conductor and champion or orchestral involvement in a broad programme of education and community activity' 1998 Baroness Warnock 'in recognition of her national and international influence on the fields of education, ethics,...

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...breathtakingly prejudiced. The biographer Claire Tomalin, at 76, is the acme of beauty, wit and cleverness. The philosopher Mary Warnock, at 85, is too intellectually formidable for words. My oldest friend, Colin McGregor, is 90 this year.

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...helped their paralysed son, Daniel James, die after a rugby accident have been backed by one of the most powerful moral philosophers, Baroness Warnock who has called for euthanasia to be legalised in the UK. Last Updated: 2:57AM BST 20 Oct...

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Shame on any country that forgets the lessons of history and wants to see its citizens murdered! Baroness Warnock is right. She is a very brave woman and deserves our thanks for being willing to say controversial opinions. I speak as...

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...back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can't remember a...

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