[3] He was then briefly an assistant master at Derby School, then a tutor at Toynbee Hall, and then a University Extension lecturer in Stepney.

"[2] A committed Anglican, de Burgh attempted to build a distinctly Christian philosophical argument for the truth of the gospel, a project that, as Knox and Creffield note, was "unfashionable at a time when protestant theologians were disparaging reason and when few philosophers were interested in religion,"[2] W.G.

de Burgh was, as Geoff Dumbreck notes, "deeply influenced by the classics and used ideas from ancient Greek philosophy to address modern philosophical problems.

"[9] He was also concerned that "the focus on the scientific method left little room"[9] for what Alan P. F. Sell refers to as the "moral-cum-spiritual dimension.

"[10] His main target being, as Dumbrek notes, the logical positivists,[9] He died on 27 August 1943 in Toller Porcorum, Dorset.