Fawcett, Henry (1832‒1884)

Fawcett, Henry, statesman and political economist, born at Salisbury; though blind, it was his early ambition to enter the arena of politics, and he devoted himself to the study of political economy, of which he became professor at Cambridge; entering Parliament, he became Postmaster-General under Mr. Gladstone in 1880; he wrote and published works on his favourite study (1832‒1884).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)