Professor Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate in Economics and until recently Master of Trinity College, will return to Cambridge on Monday to give the 2003-04 Leslie Stephen Lecture.

The ‘Leslie Stephen Lecture’ is given in every other academic year, and honours Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1903), the British philosopher and man of letters who helped draw out the ethical implications of Darwinism, and became first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography - although he is perhaps best known as the father of Virginia Woolf. Stephen was a student and tutor (and later Honorary Fellow) at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and in addition to his prodigious literary output, he became a pioneer of alpine mountain climbing.

The Leslie Stephen Lecture was endowed by Stephen’s friends and has been given since 1905, the duty of the Lecturer being to give a single lecture on


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