Eugenics Society Members List. A

Source of members names: From 1930 until 1990 members' names were published in the Society journal as they joined or became fellows. These sources are shown as a journal abbreviation followed by the year in which the person entered the Society, e.g., ER 1942. (ER = Eugenics Review; Bulletin of the Eugenics Society; B&S = Biology and Society). The Eugenics Review at times listed all the officers and members of the council. These sources are also shown as a journal abbreviation followed by a date. The Society is a corporation and its directors are listed in its annual reports deposited in Company House (CH). In 1937 the Society published a list of members in its Annual Report (ESAR 1937). In 1957 the Society published a list of members in the Eugenics Review (ER 1957). A list of members compiled in 1977 was deposited in the Welcome Archives (1977 list). Deaths of members were sometimes noted in obituaries in the Society journals (Obit + journal abbreviation and date). Other sources are as specified.

Aaron, Mrs

Eugenics Society Member 1942
Source: ER 1942

Newark, Notts
Eugenics Society Member 1948, 1957
Source: ER 1948, 1957

Eugenics Society Member 1937
Source: ER 1937

Eugenics Society Member 1985
Source: B&S 1986

Tokyo, Japan
Eugenics Society Member 1937
Personal: Mem: Eugenics Research Assocation, USA (ERA) 1938
Source: ESAR 1937, ERA 1938 list

Eugenics Society Member 1986
Personal: Roy Malcolm Acheson; Prof. of Community Medicine, Cambridge Univ. 1976-88; General Medical Council Exec. Cttee 1979-; Faculty of Community Medicine 1974- (V.P. 1986-); WHO
-- brother, Prof. Ernest Donald Acheson
(Ernest Donald Acheson; b. 1926; m. Barbara Castle; Chief Medical Officer, DHSS, Home Office 1984, ex by 1993; address, Alexander Fleming House, Elephant and Castle; Pubns: 1967 Medical Record Linkage.; Source: Debretts 1988, Med Dir 1993)
Pubns:
1991 A History of Education in Public Health.; The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: A child of many parents.; 1985 Society and Medicine: an introduction to community medicine.; 1976 Seminars in Community Medicine.; 1965 Comparability in International Epidemiology. (ed.), Milbank Memorial Fund
Source: B&S 1988, WSW 1990

Eugenics Society Member 1949
Source: ER 1949

Athens, Greece
Eugenics Society Member 1957, 1961
Source: ER 1957, 1961

3 Gloucester Gate, Regents Park, London NW1
Eugenics Society Fellow 1957, 1977
Source: ER 1957, 1977 list

3 Gloucester Gate, Regents Park, London
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Fellow 1932
Source: ER 1932

Eugenics Society Member 1945
Source: ER 1945

Eugenics Society Member 1987
Source: B&S 1988

24 Adam St. London W1 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1935, 1937
Source: ER 1935, ESAR 1937

Austin Friars London EC2
Eugenics Society Fellow 1939, 1957, 1977
Personal: 1977 address, Cheam, Surrey
Source: ER 1939, 1957, 1977 list

Master's Lodge, Trinity College, Cambridge Univ., Cambridge
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937, 1957
Personal: b. 1899; d. 1966;
daughter of Dame Ellen Francis Pinsent
(Ellen Francis Pinsent; b. 1866; d. 1949; Mem., Royal Comm. on Care and Control of the Feebleminded 1904-08; Senior Commissioner, Board of Control; Birmingham City Council; The Mental Health Services: Oxford and Berks.; novels; lived in Oxford at the end);
Ingelby Cttee on Children and Young Persons (1956-60); Mem: East Anglia Regional Hosp. Board and Chmn., Mental Health Cttee 1947-; Council, National Association for Mental Health 1946-; JP Cambridge; Pres., Howard League of Penal Reform 1950; Chmn., Juvenile Court Panel 1948-58; Cttee of Management, Cambridge Institute of Criminology 1960-; Royal Comm. on Mental Health 1954-57
m. Edgar Douglas Adrian 1923
(Edgar Douglas Adrian; b. 1889; d. 1977; Nobel Prize in Medicine 1932; cr. Baron 1955; Prof. of Physiology, Cam bridge University (1937-51); Pres. of the Royal Society 1950-55; Master, Trinity College (1951-65); Chancellor, University of Leicester (1957-71); Chancellor, University of Cambridge (1968-75, Vice Chancellor 1957-59); Trustee, Rockefeller Institute (1962-65); Harben Medal, Royal Inst. of Public Health and Hygiene 1955;The Mechanism of Nervous Action.1932; "Factors Determining Human Behaviour" Harvard Tercentenary Lecture 1937 published in The Nervous System.; The Physical Basis of Perception.1947; "Physiology", Scientific American, Sept. 1950)
son Richard Hume Adrian
(Richard Hume Adrian FRS; b. 1927; Prof. of Cell Physiology, Cambridge Univ. 1978-; Master, Pembroke College, Cambridge Univ. 1981; Vice Chancellor, Cambridge Univ. 1985-87)
Source: ESAR 1937, ER 1957, WWW, Debretts, WSW 1990

Maple Manor, Salfords, Surrey 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937
Personal: related to Dr. K.B. Aikman q.v.
Source: ESAR 1937

Maple Manor, Salfords, Surrey 1937
Eugenics Society Council 1932-1940 Fellow 1937
Personal: d. 1940; Cambridge 1912; MRCS, LRCP, BCh Univ. College Hospital 1913; RAMC WW I; MD 1922; Joint Committee on Voluntary Sterilisation; British Social Hygiene Council
Pubns: 1933-34 "Race Mixture", ER, v. 25; 1930 "The Problem of the Mental Defective", Jl. of State Medicine
Source: ESAR 1937; ER July 1940, p. 58 Obit; ER 1932
Background: With respect to immigration, he thought that: "...infinite care ought to be taken to exclude immigrants who were likely to lower the qualities of the national stock by reason of disease, character, heredity or race..." said the Eugenic Review, ER July 1940, p. 58 Obit

Medical School, Oxford Univ., Oxford
Eugenics Society Fellow 1928
Personal: 1871-1955; MB, BCh 1899; MD 1900 Oxford; Gordon Lect. in Exp. Path., Guys Hosp. 1901-03; Prof., Dept. of Pathology, Oxford; Medical Fellow, Oxford 1903-38; Dean of Medical School; m. Emily Hilda Poulton, dau. Sir Edward Poulton FRS q.v. 1909
Pubns:
1919 "Iatro-mathematics: a plea for a more general appreciation of the value of applied mathematics and exact quantitative methods in biological science" in Contributions to Medical and Biological Research; 1902 The General Pathology of Inflammation, Infection and Fever.
Source: Obit ER 1954-55, Medical Directory 1946; WWW

Eugenics Society Member 1932
Source: ER 1932

Ave Victor Emmanuel III, 8ieme, Paris, France 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1931, 1937
Source: ER 1931, ESAR 1937

YMCA, Station Rd., Aldershot 1937
Eugenics Society Affiliate 1936 Member 1937
Source: ER 1936, ESAR 1937

Kingston Blount, Oxfordshire
Eugenics Society Member 1957
Source: ER 1957

Eugenics Society Member 1945
Source: ER 1945

Eugenics Society Member 1987
Source: B&S 1988

Eugenics Society Member 1966
Personal: Fellow, Royal Economic Society
Source: ER 1966

Eugenics Society Fellow 1964 Source: ER 1964

Oxford
Eugenics Society Fellow 1955
Personal: b. 1887, Australia; d. 11 Dec. 1966; Oxford Secretary to Rhodes Trustees and Warden, Rhodes House, Oxford 1931-52
Pubns: 1953 The Queen's Peace.; Law in the Making. 1928; Bureaucracy Triumphant. 1932; Democracy and the Individual. 1943; Law and Orders.1945; law books
Source: ER 1955, WWW

Eugenics Society Council 1928
Source: ER 1928

Eugenics Society Member 1989
Source: B&S 1989

77 Cheyne Ct., London SW3 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1936, 1937
Source: ER 1936, ESAR 1937

Watts Galleries, Godalming, Surrey
Eugenics Society Fellow 1956, 1957
Pubns: 1948 Figure Drawing.; 1929 The Mind and Work of G.F. Watts w/ special reference to Watts Gallery.
Source: ER 1956, 1957

Imperial Sugarcane Station, Lawley Rd., Post Coimbatore, S. India 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1932, 1937
Source: ER 1932, ESAR 1937

ARC Institute of Animal Physiology, Cambridge
Eugenics Society Fellow 1966, 1977
Personal: Emmanuel Cipriano; 1957, 1947 Royal Veterinary College, London; MB, BCh NUI 1929; was a DSC, FRCP, FRCS by 1966; International Planned Parenthood Federation Research Committee 1966; Mem.: Society of Endocrinology, Physiological Society
Pubns: 1966 Physiology of the Domestic Fowl; 1967 Reproduction in the Female Animal; 1967 "The Evolution of Viviparity", Darwin Lecture in Human Biology (sponsored by the Eugenics Society); "Placenta Structure and Function. Symposium in honor of the 80th birthday of E.C. Amoroso 1981", Jl. of Reproduction and Fertility, Suppl. 31, 1982
Source: ER 1966, 1977 list, Medical Directory 1947, 1958, Around the World News of Population and Birth Control 1966 (Nov.)

Birmingham
Eugenics Society Member 1955, 1957
Chief Executive, Birmingham City Council 1973-77
Personal: b. 10 Sept 1924; educ. London School of Architecture and London School of Economics; Univ. of London BSc (Soc.); city planning expert; advisor, Overseas Development Administration (projects in India, Tanzania, Uganda); External Examiner in Planning at various times in Univs. of Liverpool, Newcastle, Aston, Queen's (Belfast), Herriot Watt, Nottingham, University College, London, Sheffield, Glasgow, Hong Kong, and Polytechnics at Leeds, Central London, Birmingham, Liverpool; Prof. of Planning Practice and Management, Nottingham 1979
Pubns: 1984/86 Mem., Nuffield Enquiry into Town and Country Planning; 1973 Education for Planning.; articles on Liverpool's malaise; Low Income Housing in the Developing World.
Source: ER 1955, 1957, WSW 1990

Eugenics Society Member 1951
Source: ER 1951

Eugenics Society Member 1949
Source: ER 1949

Eugenics Society Member 1983
Source: B&S 1984

Eugenics Society Member 1931, 1939
Source: ER 1931, 1939

Eugenics Society Member 1984
Source: B&S 1985

68 Tewksbury Gardens, Stag Lane, London NW9, 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1937
Source: ER 1937, ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Member 1944
Source: ER 1944

Rutland House, Rutland Gardens, London SW7, 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937, 1940
Personal: died 1941
Source: ESAR 1937, ER 1941

Eugenics Society Fellow 1933
Source: ER 1933

Highgate, London
Eugenics Society Member 1945, 1957
Personal: (Ambrose and Ann Appelbe Trust); solicitor; Marriage Guidance Council Ltd. (Subscriber 1945; Director 1945-52); Editorial Board, International Journal of Sexology (including Marriage Hygiene) 1947
Source: ER 1945, 1949 (advertisement), 1957, CH

Eugenics Society Member 1985
Pubns:
1993 The gendered resource triangle: health and resources in later life. Avebury Press; 1977 "Policy and practice in paramedical organizations: the case of family planning agencies" in Health and Health Knowledge. M. Reid (ed.) Source: B&S 1986

National Liberal Club, Whitehall Pl., London SW1 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Council 1927-29 Consul. Council 1930-39 Fellow 1937
Personal: b. 1865, Charles Frederick Close; d. 1952; Diplomatic service in wild spots of the world; Survey of India 1889-1893; responsible for several African borders surveys; Pres., Royal Geographic Society 1898, 1930; Director General, Ordnance Survey (1911-22) which position made him responsible for readjustments of parliamentary constituencies; Vicar and priest (1912-35); 1937 address 11 Southfields Rd., Eastborne, Sussex; Chmn., Palestine Exploration Fund 1930-45; Pres., International Population Union 1931-39; Member, Population Investigation Committee 1936; Hilda Pocock q.v. his first cousin
Pubns: 1950 51, "A satisfactory population for Britain?", ER v. 42, p. 23; 1949 50, "The Royal Commission on Population: the demographic position", ER, v. 41, p. 117; 1948 49, "Our Crowded Island", ER, v. 40, p. 23; 1948 49, "The Age Structure of Our Population", ER, v. 40, p. 137; 1947 Geographic By-Ways.; The Early Years of the Ordnance Survey. (reprint 1969)
Source: ER 1938-39, WWW, Obit, ER 1953 April, p. 14; ESAR 1937
Background:
In his obit, C.P. Blacker said that Sir Charles would have supported the following views, which Blacker himself apparently supported: "We may believe that change ... is in the direction of fuller consciousness ... the human race has the power to improve itself by selection ... (individuals are) ... 'finite detachments' temporarily endowed with executive powers 'from an infinite ocean of being' ". (Obit, ER 1953 p. 14) This offers a rare insight into the Indian pantheistic connections with eugenics and with empire. "Spirituality" here means Indian pantheistic spirituality, rather than Christian grace and charity.

8 Princes Gardens, London, SW7 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Member 1932
Source: ER 1932

Consultative Council 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

33 Hagden Lane, Watford, Herts 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1931, 1937
Source: ER 1931, ESAR 1937

HM Borstal Institution, Rochester 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Fellow 1960
Personal: MB 1920; DPH 1921; MD 1938; FRCP 1944; Clin. Sub-Dean and Lect. in Clin. Medicine, Medical School, Univ. Durham 1960; Physician, Royal Victoria Infirm., Newcastle 1960; by 1993 ex-Dir., Regional Post Grad. Inst. Medicine and Dentistry; "My seventy years in medicine in Northumbria", J. Royal Soc. Med., v. 82, 1989
Pubns:
1964 "Intersexuality in man", in Intersexuality in Vertebrates including Man. by Armstrong and Marshall; 1958 "Clin. Diagnosis of Sex", Proc. Roy. Soc. Medicine; 1955 " Adrenal feminism due to carcinoma of adrenal cortex", BMJ
Source: ER 1960

Rua Siqueira Campos 264 Apto. 202, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1957
Eugenics Society Life Fellow 1937, 1957
Personal: taught school in Brazil; 1937 address: Postal No. 32, Petropolis, Estado Rio de Janeiro
Pubns: 1951 Road to Happiness: a new ideology.; The Mystery of Existence in the Light of an optimistic philosophy to which is added a brief study of the sex problem in its relation to social evolution.1920; The Survival of the Unfittest.1927; "A Eugenic Colony: A Proposal for South America" ER, 1933-34, pp. 91-97; Paradise Found - where the sex problem has been solved.1936 (includes "Gardens of Euthanasia", ER July 1936, p. 139)
Source: ER 1936 July p. 139; ESAR 1937; ER 1957, ER Index

27 Phillimore Gdns., London W8, 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1921-38
Personal: b. 1958; d. 1943; MD 1883; FRCP 1907; Cons. Phys. Psychol. St. Bart's; Gresham Prof. Physic; Medical Supt., London County Council Asylum, Claybury till 1916; FRSMC (Pres., Psychia. Sect.); 85 at death
Pubns: 1919-1920, "Epilepsy: a review of field work, ER, v. 11, 70; 1907 A Textbook of mental and sick nursing: adapted for medical officers and nurses in private and public asylums. Scientific Press
Source: ESAR 1937, Obit ER 1942-44

Division of Education Sheffield Univ., Sheffield
Eugenics Society Pres. 1976 Fellow 1977 V.P. 1989 Council 1993
Personal: University of Sheffield (Pro Vice Chancellor 1964-68; Professor of Education 1954-82)
Pubns: 1978 Perimeters of Social Repair.; 1978 Changing Patterns of Sexual Behaviour.; Eugenic Society Symposium, "The Role of an education department in a modern university", pub. 1954, Sheffield; The Liberal Background of the Labour Movement.1951; 1962 Heavens Below - Utopian Experiments in England 1560-1960; The Rise of the Technocrats.1965; Yesterday's Tomorrows: a historical survey of future societies.1969; Galton Lecture 1974; A Social History of Engineering.(4th ed. 1976)
Source: 1977 list, Galton Institute Annual Report 1993, WSW 1990, CH

Manor Place, Guernsey, Channel Islands 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1932, 1937
Source: ER 1932, ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Member 1966
Source: ER 1966

11 Claremont Pl., Newcastle on Tyne
Eugenics Society Member 1955, 1957
Infanticide precedent
Personal: Leonard John H.; MB and BCh Cambridge Univ., 1951; MRCP 1951; D Obst RCOG 1956; Pediatric Registrar, South Devon and East Cornwall Hosp., Plymouth 1958; Medical Registrar, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle; Derbyshire Children's Hosp. 1978; ordered "nursing care only" for John Pearson who was born 28 June 1980; Pearson was a Down's Syndrome baby who died 60 hours later; nursing care meant sedation, water and starvation; Dr. Arthur was charged with murder; question about possible congenital heart failure caused original charge to be altered to attempted murder; cleared Leicester Crown Court, 5 November 1981
Background: Grandson of 1st Baron Arthur; father was an Indian Civil servant; m. 1954 Janet Stella Brain so that L.J.H. Arthur's father in law was Walter Russell Brain q.v., a former president of the Family Planning Association (FPA); "The trial of Dr. Leonard Arthur, accused of murdering a handicapped baby, dominated the Press in 1981 and gave publicity to pressure groups LIFE and SPUC." (FPA Annual Report 1981-82)
Source: ER 1955, 1957; Science Citation Index; newspaper accounts; CH; Medical Directory 1958, 1978; Debretts 1976, Burke's; BMJ Vol. 283, 5 Dec. 198X, p. 1542 Letter from Alan Usher
Background:
The Crown Pathologist, Alan Usher, on the Leonard Arthur trial: "I had looked at more than thirty slides from all this child's major organs with a specialist pediatric pathologist before writing my report. We had agreed that apart from pneumonia ... no other abnormality was present in these sections. It later transpired that the same specialist paediatric pathologist was retained to advise the defence and changed his opinion materially ... as a result of studying further material stained by a variety of sophisticated methods. These new slides were made privately and never shown to me and the defence pathologist's change of opinion was deliberately kept secret (he was actually expressly forbidden to speak to me about the matter) until I was in the witness box ... I was then permitted a short time ... to study this new histological material before being cross-examined on it ...[the question being] whether (the new 'defects') ... played any significant part in the fate of this neonate ... My opinion is that they did not ... Those who trust in secrecy, it seems to me, have little faith in the justice of their cause ... The sole effect of the secret technical defence ... is to foil proper investigation by late declaration" Alan Usher, Cons. Pathologist to the Home Office, BMJ Vol. 283 5 Dec. 198X p. 1542

New South Wales, Australia
Eugenics Society V.P. 1916
Personal: b. 1865; d. 1932; educ. Edinburgh Univ., MD; Minister of Public Health, New South Wales (1927-30); Pres., Immigration League, Australia; Pres., Eugenics Education Society of New South Wales
Source: ER 1916, WWW

Eugenics Society Member 1966
Personal: Pharmacy
Source: ER 1966

Gujarat College Ahmedabad, Bombay, India 1937, 1938
Eugenics Society Member 1936, 1937
Personal: Mem: Eugenics Research Association, USA 1938
Source: ER 1936, ESAR 1937, ERA list 1938

Oxford
Eugenics Society Member 1959, 1977
Source: ER 1959, 1977 list

Eugenics Society Member 1932
Source: ER 1932

University College, Southampton
Eugenics Society Member 1957
Pubns: 1956-57 "Problem families and their household budgets", ER, v. 48, p. 95
Source: ER 1957

5 Cadogan Gdns., London SW3, 1937
Eugenics Society Council 1932 Fellow 1937
Personal:
dau. Archibald Peel, Westlea, Braxbourne; YMCA; joined Docker's Trade Union; sub editor, "On Looker"; m. George Ranken Aswith 1908
(George Ranken Askwith; 1861-1942; cr. baron 1919; Barrister; Venezuelan arbitration; expert on labor laws, mining, arbitration; Mayor of St. Ives, Hants 1913; Pres., Middle Classes Union 1921-29; Hon. Treas., YMCA 1920-33; Council, Cheltenham, St. Hilda's; Address: 5 Cadogan Gardens, London; Pubns: Industrial Problems and Disputes. 1920; British Taverns. 1928; Lord James of Hereford. 1930) Pubns:
The Tower of Siloam; The Disinherited of the Earth Source: ER 1932, ESAR 1937; WWW

113 Whitaker Rd., Derby 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1957
Pubns: 1933-34, "Eugenics and capitalism", ER, v. 25, p. 64 (C)
Source: ESAR 1937, ER 1957

Dept. of Psychiatry, Royal Infirmary, Manchester 1977
Eugenics Society Fellow 1965, 1977
Personal: MB, BCh 1951 (Leeds); DPM 1957; MRCP 1962; MRCPsych 1972; Sen. Res. Assoc., Dept. Psychological Medicine, Univ. Newcastle upon Tyne 1965; Sen. Lect. (Psych.), Univ. Manchester 1977
Pubns: 1975 "Psychiatric Morbidity in Parents and Sibs of Schizophrenics and non-Schizophrenics", Brit. J. Psych.
Source: ER 1965, 1977 list; Med Dir 1965, 1977

86 St George's Terrace, Newcastle on Tyne 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1933, 1937
Source: ER 1933, ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Member 1982
Pubns: 1989 Historical Perspectives on the Role of the MRC: Essays on the History of the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom and its Predecessor, the Medical Reserach Committee 1913-1953. (ed.), Oxford; 1988 A History of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund 1902-1986 (epilogue by Walter Bodmer q.v.); 1985 "Eugenics and the Registrar General", BMJ, v. 291; Source: Bulletin of the Eugenic Society 1983

Eugenics Society Member 1945
Source: ER 1945

Eugenics Society Member 1939
Personal: wife of third baron
Background:
- John William Lubbock; b. 1803; d. 1865; FRS 1829; astronomer, mathematician, banker; first vice chancellor of London University; lived near Charles Darwin, the biologist, at Downe House, Farnham
- 1st baron, Sir John Lubbock; b. 1834; d. 1913; lived in Ireland; m. daughter of Gen. A.A. Lane Fox-Pitt-Rivers (see Pitt Rivers q.v.); banker; Secretary, London Bankers for 25 years; supported Darwin's theory of natural selection; Chmn. or Pres.: Anthropological Institute, Ethnological Institute and many other zoological, statistical and paleontological groups; The Origin of Civilization and the Primitive Condition of Man. 6th ed.; The Scenery of England and Wales.1888 London; On Municipal and National Trading.1907
- 2nd baron, Harold Fox Pitt Lubbock; b. 1858; d. 1929; lived in Farnborough, Kent; First International Eugenics Congress 1912, Vice President
- 3rd baron; b. 1915; d. 1971; m. Cicely Kathleen, d. of AK Sparrow (div. 1945); educ. Eton; no children
- 4th baron; cousin of 3rd baron; b. 1928; succ. 1971; Liberal whip, House of Commons 1963-70; MP Orpington 1962-70 (L)
- family still involved in London School of Economics, mental health, National Marriage Guidance Council, Liberal party in 1991. (see WSW 1990)
Source: ER 1939; WWW; Debretts 1988, 1990; Charles Darwin. by John Bowlby 1990; Problems in Eugenics 1912 (repr.)

Eugenics Society Member 1981
Source: Bulletin of the Eugenic Society 1982

Eugenics Society Member 1953
Source: ER 1953

Eugenics Society Member 1932
Source: ER 1932