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Arnold Toynbee was a grandson of Joseph Toynbee, a nephew of the 19th-century economist Arnold Toynbee (1852–1883), and a descendant of prominent British intellectuals for several generations. Having won a scholarship, he was educated at Winchester College , an all-boys independent boarding school in Winchester, Hampshire.
Toynbee was born in Syria, the son of the physician Joseph Toynbee, a pioneering otolaryngologist. One of nine children, his sister was the bacteriologist Grace Frankland, [2] and his brother was Paget Toynbee, the Dante scholar. Toynbee was the uncle, via his brother Harry Valpy Toynbee, of universal historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889 ...
For the descendants, and their close relatives, of Joseph Toynbee FRS (1815–1866), English otologist Pages in category "Toynbee family" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Arnold Toynbee may refer to: Arnold Toynbee (historian, born 1852) (died 1883), British economic historian; Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975), British historian and ...
Joseph Toynbee was born in Heckington, Lincolnshire on 30 December 1815, [1] and baptised there on 2 January 1816. [2] He was the third [3] son of fifteen children of the wealthy land owner and farmer George Toynbee (1783–1865).
Oswald Toynbee Falk (1879 – 1972) was a stockbroker and economist, born in the Toxteth area of Liverpool on 25 May 1879 [1] to Hermann John Falk and Rachel Russell Everard Toynbee. [1] He was the nephew of social philosopher and economist Arnold Toynbee. [1] Falk attended Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford where he trained as an actuary.
A Study of History is a 12-volume universal history by the British historian Arnold J. Toynbee, published from 1934 to 1961.It received enormous popular attention but according to historian Richard J. Evans, "enjoyed only a brief vogue before disappearing into the obscurity in which it has languished."
The Toynbee Convector, a time-travel story by Ray Bradbury, vaguely based on the philosophy of Arnold Joseph Toynbee; Toynbee's law of challenge and response, after Arnold J. Toynbee. Toynbee tiles, mysterious tiles embedded in the streets of a number of US and South American cities; The X-Men character Toad, whose 'real name' is Mortimer Toynbee