According to the 2001 UK Census, Hornsea parish had a population of 8,243.[1] It is well known for its former pottery factory, Hornsea Pottery, which closed in 2000. The largest display of Hornsea Pottery in the world can be seen at the Hornsea Museum. The museum, which is located in Newbegin, the main street of Hornsea, also contains local history exhibits. Opposite stands 'Bettison's Folly', a tower built by a local business man in the 19th century. The tower contains the only fully working retractable flag pole in the country.[citation needed].
Hornsea has many coastal defences such as sea walls, groynes and beach nourishment. Despite these defences, Hornsea's primarily cliff-based shoreline is eroding at one of the fastest-known rates in Europe.[2] Coastal erosion is very bad at either end of the main esplanade.
Like the larger resorts in the area, (such as Withernsea, Bridlington, Filey and Scarborough), the town has a promenade with shops selling fish and chips, ice cream, bucket and spade sets and other traditional seaside paraphernalia. Hornsea Mere, a large lake and bird sanctuary, lies near the town and is popular for sailing. Hornsea Mere is a natural lake which was created by glacial movement during the Ice Age. It is the largest lake in Yorkshire.
Trans Pennine Trail end marker on Hornsea seafront.
From 1864 to 1964 Hornsea had two railway stations, Hornsea Bridge and Hornsea Town, on the Hull and Hornsea Railway which connected it to Hull.[3] This line was opened by Joseph Armitage Wade, whose house once stood where Hornsea School and Language College stands today. A cottage close to the school was once visited regularly by Lawrence of Arabia; and Winston Churchill visited, and was photographed in, another house nearby. Other famous visitors to the town are Anne, Princess Royal who opened the leisure centre, and the Victorian novelist Charlotte Brontë.[4] After the railway was recommended for closure by Dr Richard Beeching (see British Rail) in his report The Reshaping of British Railways, the trackbed became the final lap of the Trans Pennine Trail. The old railway line is now a well-maintained walking and cycling (bicycles only) trail. It is a very pleasant trail with appropriate stopping points for picnic lunches. On the southern edge of Hornsea (near the site of Hornsea Pottery, closed 2000) is a large shopping centre known as Hornsea Freeport, which was the first shopping centre of its kind in this part of the north-east, adapting the original UK theme park set up by Hornsea Pottery in its heyday.
In 1880, Hornsea pier was opened; it was badly damaged by a ship later that year and demolished in 1897.[5]
There are three schools in Hornsea, 2 primary schools and one secondary school. Hornsea Community Primary School, Hornsea Burton Primary School and Hornsea School and Language College.
Hornsea Cricket Club play at the Hollis Recreation Ground, just off Atwick Road. The club currently (2011) run 4 senior Saturday sides. The 1st XI are in Division One of the York & District Senior Cricket League.
Hornsea is home to Hornsea Rugby Union Football Club. They play at the Hollis Recreation Ground and nicknamed the 'Hollismen'. They currently play in Yorkshire League Division 5.
^Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN1-8526-0508-1. OCLC60251199.
Urmson, James Opie -- filosofo inglese (n. Hornsea, Yorkshire, 1915, m. Oxford, 2012).
Urmson fu prof. nell’univ. di Saint Andrews (1959-78) e nella Stanford University (1975-80).
Esponente della filosofia analitica, ne ha delineato le caratteristiche e i metodi nella sua opera più celebre Philosophical analysis (1956; trad. it. L’analisi filosofica).
Importanti anche i suoi scritti The emotive theory of ethics (1968) e Aristotle’s ethics (1988).
Ha diretto The concise encyclopedia of west-ern philosophy and philosophers (1960; 2a ed. 1975).
James Opie Urmson MC died on 29 January 2012, aged 96.
Born in Hornsea, Yorkshire, Urmson was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, graduating in Literae Humaniores and winning the John Locke Scholarship in 1938.
Urmson was elected a Senior Demy of Magdalen College in 1938 and a Fellow by Examination in 1939.
During the Second World War he served with the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment in France (including the withdrawal to Dunkirk), North Africa and Italy, where he was taken prisoner.
On liberation he returned to Oxford, where he was a lecturer then Student of Christ Church then (after five years as professor of philosophy at Dundee) fellow and tutor in philosophy at Corpus Christi College, from 1959 to 1978.
Urmson was also the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford.
Urmson published widely, and was particularly acclaimed for his papers on Greek and early Christian philosophy, language, ethics, aesthetics, and the history of philosophy.
He was survived by a daughter, his wife Marion (Drage) having predeceased him.
James Opie Urmson (4 March 1915 – 29 January 2012) was a philosopher and classicist who spent most of his professional career at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Urmson was a prolific author and expert on a number of topics including British analytic/linguistic philosophy, George Berkeley, ethics, and Greek philosophy (especially Aristotle).
Monckton Cottage in Headington, Oxford.
The son of the Rev. James Opie Urmson (1881–1954), a Methodist Minister, he was educated at Kingswood School, Bath (1928–1934).
When World War II broke out, he joined the Army, where he served for 6 years.
Urmson was captured and spent three years in Germany as a prisoner of war, where he spent his time "playing bridge and doing mathematics".
Except for visiting appointments in the United States (e.g. Visiting Associate Professor of philosophy at Princeton University in 1950-51), he remained at Oxford until his retirement, at which point he assumed the position of Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Stanford University.
Urmson and his co-editor G. J. Warnock performed an invaluable service to the development of "analytic" or "linguistic" philosophy by preparing for publication the papers of the Oxford linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin.
After World War II, Urmson's book Philosophical Analysis (1956) -- an overview of the development of analytic philosophy at Cambridge and Oxford universities between World War I and World War II -- was influential in the post-war spread of analytic philosophy in Anglophone countries.
According to the article on supererogation in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "the history of supererogation in non-religious ethical theory is very recent, starting only in 1958 with J. O. Urmson's seminal article, “Saints and Heroes", which "opened the contemporary discussion of supererogation (strikingly, without ever mentioning the term itself!) by challenging the traditional threefold classification of moral action: the obligatory, the permitted (or indifferent) and the prohibited."
Urmson translated or wrote notes for a number of volumes of Aristotle, and commentaries on Aristotle by Simplicius, for the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series published by Cornell University Press.
His book Aristotle's Ethics was praised by J. L. Ackrill and Julius Moravcsik as an excellent introduction to Aristotle's Ethics.
In the entry devoted to Urmson in the third edition of Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers (2004), Jonathan Ree wrote of Urmson that
"Although many of his writings focus on theories about the nature of philosophy, he holds that 'on the whole the best philosophy is little affected by theory; the philosopher sees what needs doing and does it'."
His Works include:
Edited volumes
J. L. Austin How to do Things with Words
J. L. Austin Philosophical Papers (joint editor with G. J. Warnock)
Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers with Jonathan Ree (first edition 1960, second edition 1989, third edition 2004)
The British Empiricists: Locke, Berkeley, Hume (with John Dunn and A. J. Ayer)
"Saints and Heroes”, in Essays in Moral Philosophy, A. Melden (ed.), Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1958
"J. L. Austin" Journal of Philosophy 1965, reprinted in The Linguistic Turn ed. Richard Rorty 1967
"Austin, John Langshaw" in J.O. Urmson, ed., The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers, p. 54. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1960.
"The History of Analysis" in The Linguistic Turn ed. Richard Rorty 1967
"Literature", from George Dickie and R. J. Sclafani, Aesthetics: A Critical Analogy, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977.
"Aristotle on Excellence of Character", New Blackfriars Volume 71 Issue 834 Page 33–37, January 1990
Related Works
Human Agency: Language, Duty, and Value. Philosophical Essays in Honor of J. O. Urmson ed. Jonathan Dancy, J. M. E. Moravcsik, C. C. W. Taylor, Stanford University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-8047-1474-6. Contains a bibliography of Urmson's philosophical works
^Christ Church is peculiar in that it calls its Fellows "Students" with a capital "S".
^Bertrand Russell, Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell: Last Philosophical Testament 1947-1968, p.602, ed. John G. Slater & Peter Kollner ISBN 0-415-09409-7
^Urmson, J., 1958, “Saints and Heroes”, in Essays in Moral Philosophy, A. Melden (ed.), Seattle: University of Washington Press, ISBN 0-295-74049-3
Professor James Opie Urmson subjected the religious concept of “going beyond the call of duty” to the cold light of secular examination
Yet "Saints and Heroes" (1958), the essay in which he examined the concept of “supererogation”, was informed by personal experience.
In May 1943, during the last stages of the Tunisia Campaign, Urmson was awarded an immediate MC for his “courage and skill” as a captain in the 1st Battalion the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment.
Professor James Urmson
Urmson was decorated for braving enemy fire to keep his battalion supplied with ammunition, ensuring that their tenuous hold on the hill of Bou Aoukaz was maintained during a crucial phase before the final assault on Tunis.
According to his citation:
“It was largely due to the replenishment of supplies ensured by Captain Urmson that the feature was held during the precarious period.”
In his article, Urmson asked whether it is possible for an action to be morally good but not morally obligatory — in other words whether there is such a thing as going beyond the call of duty.
Using two archetypes — a doctor who volunteers to join the depleted medical forces in a plague-stricken city (the “saint”) and a soldier who throws himself on a grenade in order to save his comrades (the “hero”) as a touchstone for his argument, Urmson maintains that while moral obligations “can be extracted from a man like a debt”, it would be wrong to claim that a doctor who did not volunteer for a plague-stricken city, or a soldier who did not sacrifice his life for his comrades had failed in his duty.
Traditionally moral action had been given a threefold categorisation: the obligatory, the permitted and the prohibited. Urmson argued that this was too restrictive. Any ethical system must allow for actions that are morally praiseworthy but optional. Thus, he argued, there should be a fourth category — actions which are good to do but not bad not to do.
Urmson’s view was rooted in a concern about the application of moral precepts to everyday life.
Moral obligations, he argued, must be “within the capacity of the ordinary man,” and must be “formulable in rules of manageable complexity”.
Rules which most people are incapable of obeying merely weaken the general respect for moral precepts. Making saintly or heroic acts a matter of moral obligation, he argued, removes ethical questions from normal human experience.
Urmson’s article has continued to stimulate debate, spawning a substantial volume of literature, with Kantian champions of the “categorical imperative” (who argue that our idea of a morally right action should not be dependent on how difficult it may be for some people to do it), pitted against utilitarian proponents of “common-sense morality”. There was little doubt where Urmson’s sympathies lay: “on the whole the best philosophy is little affected by theory; the philosopher sees what needs doing and does it”.
The son of a Methodist minister, James Opie Urmson was born in Hornsea, Yorkshire, on March 4 1915 and educated at Kingswood School, Bath, then at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he read Mods and Greats.
At the outbreak of war in 1939 he joined the Army and was commissioned into the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment.
After the action for which he was awarded an MC, he was captured at Anzio and spent the rest of the war in a German PoW camp, “playing bridge and doing mathematics”.
After the war Urmson returned to Oxford as a fellow of Christ Church.
In 1955 he was appointed to a new chair of Philosophy at Queen’s College, Dundee, then part of the University of St Andrews.
Urmson returned to Oxford in 1959 as a Philosophy fellow of Corpus Christi.
Urmson remained there until his retirement in 1978, with interludes as visiting professor at various American universities.
After retirement he was appointed Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, at Stanford University.
During his time at Oxford, Urmson, with his colleague Geoffrey James Warnock, did much to promote the development of “analytic” philosophy by preparing for publication the papers of John Langshaw Austin, the philosopher of language.
He also translated a number of volumes of Aristotle, and commentaries on Aristotle by Simplicius, for the “Ancient Commentators on Aristotle” series published by Cornell University Press.
His book Aristotle’s Ethics (1988) was praised as an excellent introduction to the subject.
Other publications include:
The Emotive Theory of Ethics (1968)
Berkeley (1982)
The Greek Philosophical Vocabulary (1990).
In 1960 he edited the Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy.
A keen gardener, in retirement in Cumnor, Oxfordshire, Urmson took an active part in village life and enjoyed playing the oboe in amateur orchestras.
He married, in 1940, Marion Drage, who died in 2010.
He is survived by their daughter.
Professor James Urmson, born March 4 1915, died January 29 2012
Professor James Urmson, the moral philosopher who has died aged 96, subjected the religious concept of “going beyond the call of duty” to the cold light of secular examination
7:14PM BST 04 Apr 2012
Yet Saints and Heroes (1958), the paper in which he examined the concept of “supererogation”, was informed by personal experience. In May 1943, during the last stages of the Tunisia Campaign, Urmson was awarded an immediate MC for his “courage and skill” as a captain in the 1st Battalion the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment.
Professor James Urmson
Urmson was decorated for braving enemy fire to keep his battalion supplied with ammunition, ensuring that their tenuous hold on the hill of Bou Aoukaz was maintained during a crucial phase before the final assault on Tunis. According to his citation: “ It was largely due to the replenishment of supplies ensured by Captain Urmson that the feature was held during the precarious period.”
In his article, Urmson asked whether it is possible for an action to be morally good but not morally obligatory — in other words whether there is such a thing as going beyond the call of duty. Using two archetypes — a doctor who volunteers to join the depleted medical forces in a plague-stricken city (the “saint”) and a soldier who throws himself on a grenade in order to save his comrades (the “hero”) as a touchstone for his argument, he maintained that while moral obligations “can be extracted from a man like a debt”, it would be wrong to claim that a doctor who did not volunteer for a plague-stricken city, or a soldier who did not sacrifice his life for his comrades had failed in his duty. Traditionally moral action had been given a threefold categorisation: the obligatory, the permitted and the prohibited. Urmson argued that this was too restrictive. Any ethical system must allow for actions that are morally praiseworthy but optional. Thus, he argued, there should be a fourth category — actions which are good to do but not bad not to do.
Urmson’s view was rooted in a concern about the application of moral precepts to everyday life. Moral obligations, he argued, must be “within the capacity of the ordinary man,” and must be “formulable in rules of manageable complexity”. Rules which most people are incapable of obeying merely weaken the general respect for moral precepts. Making saintly or heroic acts a matter of moral obligation, he argued, removes ethical questions from normal human experience.
Urmson’s article has continued to stimulate debate, spawning a substantial volume of literature, with Kantian champions of the “categorical imperative” (who argue that our idea of a morally right action should not be dependent on how difficult it may be for some people to do it), pitted against utilitarian proponents of “common-sense morality”. There was little doubt where Urmson’s sympathies lay: “on the whole the best philosophy is little affected by theory; the philosopher sees what needs doing and does it”.
The son of a Methodist minister, James Opie Urmson was born in Hornsea,Yorkshire, on March 4 1915 and educated at Kingswood School, Bath, then at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he read Mods and Greats.
At the outbreak of war in 1939 he joined the Army and was commissioned into the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment. After the action for which he was awarded an MC, he was captured at Anzio and spent the rest of the war in a German PoW camp, “playing bridge and doing mathematics”.
After the war Urmson returned to Oxford as a fellow of Christ Church. In 1955 he was appointed to a new chair of Philosophy at Queen’s College, Dundee, then part of the University of St Andrews. He returned to Oxford in 1959 as a Philosophy fellow of Corpus Christi. He remained there until his retirement in 1978, with interludes as visiting professor at various American universities. After retirement he was appointed Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, at Stanford University.
During his time at Oxford, Urmson, with his colleague Geoffrey Warnock, did much to promote the development of “analytic” philosophy by preparing for publication the papers of JL Austin, the philosopher of language. He also translated a number of volumes of Aristotle, and commentaries on Aristotle by Simplicius, for the “Ancient Commentators on Aristotle” series published by Cornell University Press. His book Aristotle’s Ethics (1988) was praised as an excellent introduction to the subject. Other publications include The Emotive Theory of Ethics (1968); Berkeley (1982); and The Greek Philosophical Vocabulary (1990). In 1960 he edited the Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy.
A keen gardener, in retirement in Cumnor, Oxfordshire, Urmson took an active part in village life and enjoyed playing the oboe in amateur orchestras.
He married, in 1940, Marion Drage, who died in 2010. He is survived by their daughter.
Professor James Urmson, born March 4 1915, died January 29 2012
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