Eugenics Society Members List - Me-Mz.

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.

Meade, Prof. James E.

Political Economy, Cambridge Univ., Cambridge
Eugenics Society Member 1938 Council 1962-68 Treasurer 1963-67 Editorial Board, ER 1968 Fellow 1958, 1977
Nobel Prize for Economics 1977; one ofJohn Maynard Keynes most influential disciples; Biological Aspects of Social Problems., ed. w/ A.S. Parkes q.v. 1965
Personal: Member, Economic Section, League of Nations 1938-40; Prof. of Commerce, London School of Economics 1947-57; Prof. of Political Economy, Cambridge 1957-68; Governor: National Institute for Economic and Social Research 1947-1990, London School of Economics 1960-74; Chmn., Economic Survey Mission, Mauritius 1960 (this mission resulted in a recommendation that Mauritius adopt family planning, using the IPPF; see Titmuss)
Pubns:
1992 Agathotopia: The Economics of Partnership.; 1992 "A new Keynesian approach to full employment", Lloyds Bank Annual Review, v. 5, p. 183; Public Works in Their International Aspect. 1933; An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. 1936; League of Nations World Economic Surveys for 1937-38 and 1938-39; The Economic Basis of a Durable Peace. 1940; A Neoclassical Theory of Economic Growth. 1960; The Economic and Social Structure of Mauritius. 1961; 1964 Efficiency, Equality and Ownership of Property.; 1965 Biological Aspects of Social Problems.; 1966 Genetic and Environmental Factors in Human Ability.; 1967 Social and Genetic Influences on Life and Death.; Principles of Political Economy.\4 Vols. 1965-76 inclu.: The Controlled Economy and\The Just Economy; Chmn., Cttee of Inst. for Fiscal Studies (The Structure and Reform of Direct Taxation. 1978); 1989 Alternative Systems of Business Organization and Workers' Remuneration.
- son; Thomas Wilson Meade
(Thomas Wilson Meade q.v. is Director of the MRC Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit Northwick Park, Harrow 1970-)
- wife is
1. the sister of Geoffrey Masterman Wilson
(Geoffrey Masterman Wilson; Chmn. of Oxfam (1977-83); Vice President, International Bank, Washington, DC 1961; Overseas Development Ministry 1966-70)
2. the sister of Prof. Roger Cowan Wilson
(Prof. Roger Cowan Wilson; Prof. of Education, University of Bristol 1951-71; General Secretary of the Friends Relief Service 1940-46; Mem. of Colonial Office and Ministry of Overseas Develt. committees and commissions between 1957 and 1971)
(R.C. Wilson's wife's sister is Dorothy Emmet who taught philosophy at the University of Manchester 1938-66, now Emeritus; Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism. 1932.; The Nature of Metaphysical Thinking. 1945; Sociological Theory and Philosophical Analysis. 1970; The Moral Prism. 1979)
- daughter is married to Prof. Partha Sarathi Dasgupta
(Prof. Partha Sarathi Dasgupta; Prof. of Economics at Cambridge since 1985; London School of Economics (Lect. 1971-75, Reader 1975-78, Prof. 1978-84); Consultant: World Bank on Resource Management 1977, WHO 1975-85)
Source: ER 1938-39, 1958, 1968; 1977 list; vol. 60, ASP's Hist; WSW 1990

MRC/DHSS, Epidemiology & Medical Care, Northwick Park Hosp., Harrow, Middlesex
Eugenics Society Fellow 1965, 1977
Personal: son of J.E. Meade q.v.; Director, MRC Unit at Northwick Park Hosp.; Senr. Lect., Dept. of Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Fellow, Faculty of Community Medicine
Pubns:
1993 "Fibrinolytic activity, clotting factors, and long term incidence of ischaemic heart disease in the Northwick Park Heart Study" w/ V. Ruddock, R. Chakraborti, G.J. Miller, Y. Stirling, The Lancet, v. 342, Oct. 30, p. 1076; 1993 "Plasma renin activity and ischaemic heart disease" w/ J.A. Cooper, W.S. Peart, NEJM, v. 329, August 26, p. 616
Source: ER 1965, 1977 list, WSW 1990, Medical Directory 1985

Buckhurst Lodge, 30 Buckhurst Rd., Bexhill on Sea, Sussex 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1932, 1937
Source: ER 1932, ESAR 1937

Grimsby, Lincs.
Eugenics Society Fellow 1958, 1977
Medical Secretary, Council for Investigation of Fertility Control (CIFC) 1960; responsible for the first declaration that "the Pill" was safe. It is now acknowledged that it was not safe. New generations are under study for safety.
The CIFC was founded by the Oliver Bird Trust, a Eugenics Society group. Money made by selling the Pill went to the Eugenics Society through the Marie Stopes Foundation, another Eugenics Society group.
Yet the CIFC was treated as an independent, unbiased group and allowed to pass on the safety of the Pill until 1970.
Personal: d. June 1992; nee Loudon; MB, ChB 1940; Mem., Infertility Subcommittee, Family Planning Association 1958; Part Time Medical Officer, Clinic for Psychosexual Problems, Lincolnshire Health Authority 1985; Fellow, Royal Society Medicine; Mem., Institute of Psychosexual Medicine; Late Clinical Adviser and Medical Secretary, Family Planning Association; Adviser, WHO
Pubns:
1965 "Some Modern Aspects of subfertility and contraception.", NZ Medical Journal 1950; "The Mode of Action of Oral Contraceptives", ER Jun 1965, p. 195; (ed.) Handbook on Oral Contraception. 1965 Churchill "The book has arisen out of the work of the Oral Advisory Group of the IPPF Medical Committee" (from a review by D. Malcolm Potts q.v., ER 1966, p. 105)
Source: ER 1958, 1977 list, The Bitter Pill., Medical Directory 1958, 1985

Clinical Research Center, Harrow, Middlesex (see T. Meade q.v.)
Eugenics Society Fellow 1959, 1977
Nobel Prize for work on Immunology Personal: d. 1987; Director, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London; Commander of the Order of the British Empire; Clinical Research Center 1977 (see T.W. Meade q.v.)
m. Jean S. Medawar
(Jean Shinglewood Medawar; Subscriber, Family Planning Association articles, 1964; Director, Family Planning Association Ltd. 1966-72, 1980; Population Concern Campaign Cttee 1986-87)
Pubns:
"Skin Transplants", Scientific American, April, 1957, p. 62; The Future of Man. 1959; "Principles and Paradox in Eugenics", Royal Institute of Great Britain, Proc., 38, (1961) p. 493-501; "Natural selection and the concept of fitness", 1964 Darwin Lecture in Human Biology for the Eugenics Society; The Hope of Progress. 1972; The Life Science. 1978; Aristotle to Zoos: a philosophical dictionary of biology. 1983 w/ JeanMedawar; The Threat and the Glory: Reflections on Science and Scientists. 199X
Source: ER 1959, 1977 list, CH
Quotes: 1983 "...intended for browsing by educated persons such as biologists, psychologists, sociologists, and other reflective people who see in biology the science most relevant to the understanding and amelioration of the human condition ..." Statement of purpose, Aristotle to Zoos: a philosophical dictionary of biology.
Background: Life of Medawar
A Very Decided Preference: life with Peter Medawar., J.S. Medawar; "High on Science", by M. F. Perutz in New York Review of Books, v. 37, August 16, 1990 p. 12; Obit, Current Biography, v. 48, Nov. 1987, p. 56

London
Eugenics Society Member 1938, 1957
Source: ER 1938-39, 1957

MRC Epidemiology Unit, West Indies Univ., Kingston, Jamaica
Eugenics Society Fellow 1965, 1977
Personal: MB, BS 1950; MD 1962; FRCP 1970; Mem., Society for the Study of Social Medicine 1958; Dir., MRC Epidemiological Unit, Jamaica 1977; Cons. in Epidemiology and Mem., Scientific Staff, Northwick Park Hosp., Harrow 1985; ret. 1991
Pubns:
epidemiological studies on heart disorders in the UK and Jamaica; Mild Hypertension: is there pressure to treat? An Account of the MRC Trial w/ G. Greenberg (reviewed in JAMA, v. 259, March 25, 1988, p. 1882)
Source: ER 1965, 1977 list, Medical Directory 1958, 1985, 1991

London
Eugenics Society Fellow 1961, 1977
Personal: Fellow, Society of Antiquaries; Fellow, Royal Historical Society
Source: ER 1961, 1977 list

Eugenics Society Member 1947
Source: ER 1947

Dept. of Education, Hull University, Hull
Eugenics Society Fellow 1965, 1977 V.P. 1972, 1978, 1979, 1984 Council 1989, 1993
Personal: Haydon Braddock Miles; Senior Lect. in Education, Univ. of Hull 1972; Cottingham, E. Yorks 1984 address
Pubns:
in The Biology of Human Intelligence. 1983, 20th Eugenic Society Symposium
Source: ER 1965, 1977 list, CH, Biology and Society 1984, 1989, Galton Institute Annual Report 1993

Eugenics Society Council 1920 Consultative Council 1930, 1937
Personal: d. 1952; co-founder Voluntary Euthanasia Society (Pres. of Society at his death); President, Medical Officers of Health Association (proposed euthanasia in speech to Association)
Pubns:
Population and Birth Control. 1917 Leicester; "Infanticide", ER 1923-24, 15, 374, (c); Euthanasia. 1931; "The Case for Euthanasia", Fortnightly Review, 136 (1931), pp. 701-718
Source: ER 1920, 1930, ESAR 1937; ER Vol. 35-36, 1943-45, p.130, Periodical Index, ER 1952, p. 114

Eugenics Society Member 1937
Source: ER 1937

77 Harley House, Marleybone Rd., London NW1
Eugenics Society Member 1949 Fellow 1957
Personal: Emeritus Physician, Maudsley Hospital; Hon. Psychiatrist, Tavistock Clinic; British Psychological Society (Late Chmn., Medical Sector); Chmn., Association of Child Psychiatry
Pubns:
jt. ed.: British Journal of Criminology1948, Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology 1959-
Source: ER 1949, 1957, WWW

Eugenics Society Member 1931
Source: ER 1931

Eugenics Society Member 1938
Source: ER 1938-39

Eugenics Society Member 1982
Source: Bulletin of the Eugenic Society 1983

Birmingham
Eugenics Society Council 1916
Source: Men Behind Hitler, p. 87, ER 1916

Eugenics Society Member 198X
Source: B&S 1985

Belfast, N. Ireland
Eugenics Society Fellow 1977
Source: 1977 list

Sanderstead, Surrey
Eugenics Society Member 1946, 1957
Source: 1945-46, 1957

Eugenics Society Member 1951
Source: ER 1951

Hammondswood, Frensham, Surrey 1937
Eugenics Society Life Fellow 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

Anne of Cleves House, Ditchling, Sussex 1957
Eugenics Society Fellow 1957
Source: ER 1957

Tegessie Farm, Nanyuki, Kenya, East Africa 1937
Eugenics Society Life Fellow 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Fellow 1935, Life Fellow 1937
Personal: Dept. of Zoology, University College, London WC1, 1937
Source: ER 1935, ESAR 1937

42 Heaton Rd., Manchester
Eugenics Society Fellow 1957
Source: ER 1957

South Lodge, Champion Hill, London SE5, 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1936 Fellow 1937
Source: ER 1936, ESAR 1937

Dept. of Genetics and Human Variation
La Trobe Univ., Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Eugenics Society Fellow 1977
Source: 1977 list

Carradale House, Carradale, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland
Eugenics Society Life Fellow 1937, 1957, 1977
Personal: author of many novels; 1937 address: River Court, Hammersmith Mall, London W6; Highland and Islands Advisory Panel 1947-65 (Highlands and Islands Development Council 1966-76); Honorary Associate, Rationalist Press Association 1984-88
- daughter of John Scott Haldane
- sister of JBS Haldane
- married G.R. Mitchison QC
- son, Denis Anthony
(Denis Anthony; b. 1919; Prof. of Bacteriology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School 1971-84 and Director of the MRC Unit for Laboratory Studies of Tuberculosis 1956-84)
- son John Murdoch
(John Murdoch; Prof. of Zoology, University of Edinburgh 1963-88, Emeritus; The Biology of the Cell Cycle. 1971)
- son, Nicholas Avrion,
(Nicholas Avrion; his tutor was P.B. Medawar q.v.; Phd (zoology) 1952; Commonwealth Fund Fellow (Indiana Univ.; Jackson Lab, Bar Harbor); Edinburgh, Harvard, Stanford; Head, Division of Experimental Biology, National Institute for Medical Research 1962-71; Jodrell Prof. of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, University College, London 1971-1991 (after Andrew Fielding Huxley (see Huxley)); "Will We Survive", Scientific American, Sept. 1993 )
Pubns:
Comments on Birth Control. 1930; What the Human Race is Up To. (ed.) 1962; Small Talk. 1973 (Autobiog.); 1988 book review of The Politics of Development in Botswana in New Statesman, v. 115, Feb. 26, p. 24; and many novels e.g., Early in Orcadia, The Corn King and the Spring Queen
Source: ESAR 1937, ER 1957, 1977 list, WSW 1990

Eugenics Society Member 1967
Source: ER 1967

Eugenics Society Council 1916
Personal: "at a time when we (the Eugenics Society) had to face a veritable struggle for existence in regard to finance, Sir Robert Mond was our most generous benefactor" (ER 1933, p. 6)
Source: Men Behind Hitler, p. 87, ER 1916

London
Eugenics Society Member 1977
Source: 1977 list

Whetham, Calne, Wilts 1937, 1957
Eugenics Society Member 1937, 1957
Source: ESAR 1937, ER 1957

Eugenics Society Fellow 1944 Council 1944-45
Source: ER 1943-45

Istituto di Genetica, Citta Universita, Rome, Italy
Eugenics Society Fellow 1965, 1977
Pubns:
1965 "Infectious diseases as selective agents", in Biological Aspects of Social Problems., Parkes q.v. and Meade q.v.
Source: ER 1965, 1977 list

42 Portman Square, London W1, 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1936, 1937
Personal: d. 1942
Source: ER 1936; ESAR 1937; Obit ER 1942, p. 40

Edinburgh
Eugenics Society Member 1948-49, 1957
Source: ER 1948-49, 1957

Eugenics Society Editor, ER 1927-33 Fellow 1932, 1951
Personal: d. 1954; Imperial Bureau of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh; International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (Secretary, British Section); Secretary, Commission on Differential Fertility, Fecundity, and Sterility 1928
Pubns:
A Bibliography of Differential Fertility. 1933; The Magic Halibut. 1939
Source: ER 1932, 1951, Vol. 60, ASP's Hist., WWW, ER 1954-55, p. 202

Liverpool
Eugenics Society Member 1924
Source: ER 1923-24

Eugenics Society Member 1951
Source: ER 1951

Eugenics Society Member 1947
Source: ER 1947

Powys, Wales
Eugenics Society Fellow 1966, 1977
Personal: MRCS, LRCP 1947 (Leeds Div.); Medical Officer, Powys Health Authority 1977; Research Fellow, Univ. of Southhampton (Medical School, Dept. of Human Reproduction); 1977 address Winchester, Hants; Mem., Institute of Psycho-sexual Medicine
Pubns:
"The Acceptance by Problem Parents in Southampton of a domiciliary birth control service", in Biological Aspects of Human Problems. 1965 w/ A.S. Parkes q.v. and J.E. Meade q.v. (Eugenics Society Symposium); "Domiciliary Work with Problem Families", Medical Officer Jl, 1968
Source: ER 1966, 1977 list, Medical Directory 1985

Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
Eugenics Society Member 1957
Source: ER 1957

Laboratorio di Ecologia, Univ. di Parma, Parma, Italy
Eugenics Society Fellow 1977
Personal: works w/ L.L. Cavalli-Sforza, see AES list
Source: 1977 list

Eugenics Society V.P. 1909-11 First International Eugenics Congress 1912, General Committee
Personal: see histories of Bloomsbury group for Lady Morrell's significance; she originally owned Headington Hill Hall, which was Robert Maxwell's when he died.
Source: ER 1909-11; Problems in Eugenics. 1912 (repr.)

Mudeford House, Mudeford, Hants
Eugenics Society Fellow 1939, 1957
Personal: Diploma in Public Health, London
Source: ER 1938-39, 1957

Eugenics Society Council 1920
Source: ER 1920

10 Woldensweg, Hamburg, Germany 1937
Eugenics Society Life Fellow 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Fellow 1935
Personal: Eton College, Windsor 1937
Source: ER 1935, ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Member 1982
Source: Bulletin of the Eugenic Society 1983

Beacon Tor, West Kirby, Cheshire 1937
Eugenics Society Life Fellow 1935, 1937
Source: ER 1935, ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Fellow 1963
Source: ER 1963

Camberley, Surrey
Eugenics Society Fellow 1977
Source: 1977 list

Eugenics Society Council 1910-11, 1916 First International Eugenics Congress 1912, General Committee
Source: ER 1910-11, 1916, Men Behind Hitler., p. 87; Problems in Eugenics. 1912 (repr.)

Birmingham
Eugenics Society V.P. 1916
Personal: President, Birmingham Heredity Society 1916
Source: ER 1916, Men Behind Hitler, p. 87

Serological Population Genetics Lab, St. Bartholomews, London
Eugenics Society Fellow 1957, 1977
Former Director, Serological Population Genetics Laboratory Med. Officer, Galton Lab, Serum Unit, Cambridge 1945-46; Dir., Blood Group Ref. Lab, Ministry of Health and MRC 1946-65; The Distribution of the Human Blood Groups. 1954; studied anthropology and blood groups. The significance of this is that the Society believed that certain blood groups might confer immunity or susceptibility to certain diseases, as has now been shown to be the case for AIDS (See R.B. McConnell)
Personal: b. 11 April 1904; educ. St. Bartholomews Hosp. Med. Coll., BA 1925; Med. student 1939-43; Hon. Senr. Lectr. in Haematology, St. Bartholomews Hosp. Med. Coll. 1965-77; Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, Chelsea Bridge Rd. 1957; Member: Soc. for Study of Human Biology (Vice President 1960-63); Human Biology Council 1987
Pubns:
1954 The Distribution of Human Blood Groups.; 1958 The ABO Blood Groups, Comprehensive Tables and Maps of World Distribution.; 1959 "Human blood groups and natural selection", Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, v. 24, p. 57;1963 Man and Cattle. (ed. jtly); 1978 Blood Groups and Diseases.; 1978 The Genetics of the Jews.; 1983 Blood Relations: Blood Groups and Anthropology.
Background:
Blood Group Reference Lab Project: A Search for the AIDS Virus?
"...an investigation of antibodies against the white cells and platelets of blood transfusion cases ... and transplantation of organs such as kidneys..." ER 1963, p. 136
Source: ER 1957, WSW 1990, 1977 list

Dept. of Zoology, University College, Swansea, S. Wales
Eugenics Society Fellow 1977
Source: 1977 list

Philadelphia, USA
Eugenics Society Member 1936, 1937
Personal: Director, American Eugenic Society; Marriage Council Office, 253 S. 15th St. Phil., Pennsylvania, USA 1937; Member: Eugenics Resaerch Association, USA 1938; read Kinsey's book in manuscript; (husband, Stuart Mudd, "The Staphylococcus Problem", Scientific American, Jan., 1959, p. 41)
Source: ER 1936; ESAR 1937; EQ, life of Kinsey, AES list; ERA list 1938

Eugenics Society Council 1911, 1916 First International Eugenics Congress 1912, General Committee
Personal: Lect. in Biology at London Hospital Medical School 1909
Pubns:
"The Menace to the English Race and To its Traditions of Present Day Immigration and Emigration.", ER 1919-1920
Source: ER 1911, 1916, Men Behind Hitler, p. 87; Problems in Eugenics. 1912 (repr.)
Quotes:
White Superiority:
"It is possible ... to rehabilitate in England and elsewhere, the great race that has carried its traditions of culture, sportsmanship and justice to every quarter of the globe ... England still contains a large percentage of the tall, well built, blonde, blue or grey eyed type" from "The Menace to the English Race and To its Traditions of Present Day Immigration and Emigration." ER 1919-1920 (see Madison Grant, The Passing of the Great Race for a similar line of thought)
Free Education:
"... free compulsory elementary education... (is an example of)... well intentioned but costly panaceas that harass and tax and eventually destroy the fit in order to attempt - for they never can achieve - the salvation of the unfit..." (from a review by Mudge, ER 1909, p. 137)

Haslemere
Eugenics Society Member 1910
Personal: Secretary of Haslemere branch of the Eugenics Society 1910
Source: ER 1910, p. 331

Bombay, India
Eugenics Society Fellow 1934
Personal: Bachelor of Law
Source: ER 1934

Eugenics Society Member 1947
Source: ER 1947

Manchester
Eugenics Society Council 1916
Source: ER 1916, Men Behind Hitler, p. 87

20 Culford Mansions, Culford Gardens, London SW3, 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1935, 1937
Source: ER 1935, ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Member 1938
Source: ER 1938-39

London
Eugenics Society Member 1947 Fellow 1949, 1957
Source: ER 1947, 1949, 1957

Eugenics Society Member 1983
Source: B&S 1984

PO, Rivonia, Johannesburg, South Africa
Eugenics Society Fellow 1943, 1957
Source: ER 1943, 1957

Eugenics Society Member 1944
Source: ER 1943-45

Eugenics Society Fellow
Personal: Member, Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Strait; Prof. of Psychology, King's College, London; Founder, National Institute of Industrial Psychology (Principal, then Hon. Scientific Advisor till death in 1946; see L. Hearnshaw, Cyril Burt); see Prof. W.B. Mc Dougall (ES & AES)
Pubns:
Editor, British Journal of Psychology
Source: ER Oct. 1946, p. 187 Obit

Eugenics Society Consultative Council 1937
Source: ESAR 1937