Haywood, Francis, 1793 or 1794-1858 (Personal Name)

Kant, Immanuel. Critick of pure reason, 1838 (name not given)

RLIN, July 23, 2002 (hdgs.: Haywood, Francis, 1796-1858; Haywood, Francis)

Oxford dictionary of national biography, viewed online 3 January 2020 (Haywood, Francis (1793/4-1858), translator; born in Manchester; baptized 30 April 1794, son of Francis Haywood, cotton broker; family later moved to Liverpool; became a member of the intellectual circle headed by William Roscoe (biographer of Pope Leo X and Lorenzo de' Medici); through Roscoe, he came to know Antonio Panizzi; was one of Panizzi's sureties when Panizzi was first appointed to the Department of Printed Books at British Museum and when he was later promoted as principal librarian; Haywood and Panizzi remained close friends until Haywood's death; developed an interest in German culture, especially German religion and philosophy; work as a cotton broker; in 1828, published anonymous translation of K. G. Bretschneider's Reply to the Rev. Hugh J. Rose's Work on the State of Protestantism in Germany; main claim to fame: in 1838, the first complete English translation of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason; published his Analysis of Kant's Critique, mainly a compilation of other people's work; in 1853, translation of a work by his Liverpool friend Wilhelm Ihne, entitled Researches into the History of the Roman Constitution (published in Germany in 1847); lived for much of life at Edge Lane Hall, West Derby, on outskirts of Liverpool; died, aged 64, on 29 May 1858 at Sillins, Feckenham [Civil Parish], buried in churchyard of St John the Baptist, Feckenham [village]; entry version dated 3 January 2008)

Dictionary of national biography. Supplement, 1901, viewed online 3 January 2020 (Haywood, Francis (1796-1858), translator of Kant; born at Liverpool in 1796; belonged to the literary circle that encircled William Roscoe and William Shepherd in first quarter of 19th century, formed especially close friendship with Antonio Panizzi; possessed of ample means, devoted self to study, knowledge of German and German philosophy and divinity; translation of Kant's Critick of Pure Reason long remained the standard English translation; published in 1838, reprinted with improvements 1848; resided at Edge Lane Hall, near Liverpool, but died at Silliers [i.e., Sillins], Worcestershire, 29 May 1858)

Wikipedia, 3 January 2020 (Francis Haywood (1796-1858); Liverpool merchant and translator, the first person to translate Kant's Critique of Pure Reason into English; born in Liverpool, Haywood lived there for most of his life; active in Liverpool Unitarian circles; translation of the first Critique appeared anonymously in 1838; died on 29 May 1858 at Feckenham in Worcestershire [cites both the DNB 1901 supplement and the updated Oxford DNB 2008 entry, but without noting discrepancies in date and place of birth])

The Cambridge companion to Kant's Critique of pure reason, 2010: bibliography, page 431 (Kant, Immanuel. Critick of pure reason. Second edition with notes and explanation of Terms. Translated by Francis Haywood. London: William Pickering, 1848) [no biographical information on Haywood; discussion on page 2 names other translators of English translations, but not Haywood]

Wikidata, 3 January 2020 (Francis Haywood (Q5481260); description: British translator; date of birth: 1796; date of death: 1858; languages spoken, written, or signed: German, English; writing language: English; occupation: translator; described by source: Dictionary of National Biography, first supplement) http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5481260

Kant-Lexikon, 2015; Stark, Susanne. Behind inverted commas : translation and Anglo-German cultural relations in the nineteenth century, 1999, searched online 24 January 2020; Economic history review, August 1970: Chapman, Stanley D. Fixed capital formation in the British cotton industry, 1770-1815 (page 256, in list Insurance policy valuations of English cotton manufacturers c. 1795, cites the company of [this Francis Haywood's father, also named] Francis Haywood, with a Manchester primary location at that time: Francis Haywood & partners, Manchester, Macclesfield, and Litton)