Sir Arthur Helps KCB DCL was an English writer and dean of the Privy Council. He was born on July 10, 1813, and died on March 7, 1875. He was an Apostle of Cambridge and one of the first people to fight for animal freedom. Arthur Helps was born in Streatham, South London. He is the youngest son of London businessman Thomas Helps. He went to Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, for his education. In 1835, he graduated as the thirty-first wrangler in the undergraduate mathematics course. The smartest people there saw him as a man with special skills who was likely to make a name for himself later on. He was a member of the "Conversazione Society," also known as the Cambridge Apostles. This group was started in 1820 by a few young men who liked literature and speculation and wanted to talk about social and literary issues. He was friends with Charles Buller, Frederick Maurice, Richard Chenevix Trench, Monckton Milnes, Arthur Hallam, and Alfred Tennyson. After not long leaving college, Arthur Helps got a job as Thomas Spring Rice's (later Lord Monteagle) private servant. Rice was Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time.
