When was the person who wrote The Sovereignty of Good born?
Iris Murdoch Dame Jean Iris Murdoch ( ; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher, best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, "Under the Net", was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1987, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Her books include "The Bell" (1958), "A Severed Head" (1961), "The Red and the Green" (1965), "The Nice and the Good" (1968), "The Black Prince" (1973), "Henry and Cato" (1976), "The Sea, the Sea" (1978, Booker Prize), "The Philosopher's Pupil" (1983), "The Good Apprentice" (1985), "The Book and the Brotherhood" (1987), "The Message to the Planet" (1989), and "The Green Knight" (1993). In 2008, "The Times" ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Herbert James Paton Herbert James Paton FBA FSA Scot (30 March 1887 – 2 August 1969) was a Scottish philosopher who taught at various university institutions, including Glasgow and Oxford. He worked in British intelligence during the to world wars and played a diplomatic role on behalf of Poland at the 1919 Versailles conference. In 1968, the year before his death, he published "The Claim of Scotland", a plea for greater general understanding of the constitutional position of his own native country.