M'Taggart, John M'Taggart Ellis 1866-1925
English philosopher

Born in London, he was educated at Clifton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he later taught (1897-1923). His early works were commentaries on Hegel's philosophy and were effectively preliminaries to his own systematic metaphysics set out in The Nature of Existence (2 vols, 1921, and posthumously, 1927). He is regarded as the most important of the Anglo-Hegelian or Idealistic philosophers who dominated British and US thought in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.