Joseph Rickaby

Joseph John Rickaby, SJ (1845 – 1932) was an English Jesuit priest and philosopher.

He received his education at Stonyhurst College, and was ordained in 1877, one of the so-called Stonyhurst Philosophers, a significant group for neo-scholasticism in England,[1] along with Richard F. Clarke, Herbert Lucas, and his own brother, John Rickaby.

[2] At the time he was at St Beuno's, he was on friendly terms with Gerard Manley Hopkins;[3] they were ordained on the same day.

He was affiliated with Clarke's Hall in Worcester College, Oxford, and would deliver conferences to Catholic undergraduates of Oxford and Cambridge.

[4][5] His work is quoted by Charles E. Raven in Science, Religion, and The Future (1943, p. 9).