John Leofric Stocks DSO (26 October 1882 – 13 June 1937) was a British philosopher and was briefly Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool in 1937.
[1] He was educated at Rugby School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford and graduated in 1903.
Stocks served in the British Army with the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the First World War, and he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for gallantry at Beaucourt.
He edited the Leaders of Philosophy book series (Ernest Benn Ltd.).
[2] He married Mary Danvers Brinton, who was later Baroness Stocks, with whom he had a son and two daughters.