Henry Fawcett (1833 - 1884)

Henry Fawcett PC (26 August 1833 – 6 November 1884) was a blind British academic, statesman and economist. In 1863 Fawcett published his Manual of Political Economy. In the same year he became Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge. He made himself a recognised authority on economics, his works on which include The Economic Position of the British Labourer (1871) and Labour and Wages.