Eugenics Society Members List O.

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.

O'Byrne, K.S.

Eugenics Society Member 1967
Source: ER 1967

Eugenics Society Member 1964
Source: ER 1964

Eugenics Society Member 1938
Source: ER 1938-39

Eugenics Society Member 1964
Personal: Fellow, Royal Economic Society
Source: ER 1964

42 Harley St. London W1, 1937
Eugenics Society Council 1931-32, Fellow 1937
Personal: World Federation of Mental Heath
Source: ER 1931-32, Men Behind Hitler; ESAR 1937

genics Society Fellow 1934
Source: ER 1934

Eugenics Society Member 1967
Source: ER 1967

Gave money to ES:
Controlled by ES; Money given to the Eugenics Society was used to set up the Council for the Investigation of Fertility Control Ltd. (CIFC), a company limited by guarantee.
The Clinical Trials Committee, which approved oral contraceptives was under the CIFC. "at one time no oral contraceptive was accepted in this country without the Committee's approval" (Journal of Biosocial Science, Oct 1970, p. 362)
Source: ER Vol. 60, ASP's Hist, WSW 1990, J. Biosocial Science; The Bitter Pill.
The Conception of the Pill?
Women in Auschwitz but not other camps gave birth to children with intelligence defects; a secret Nuremberg document showed greenhouses were built at Auschwitz to grow a rare South American plant from which female hormones could be made "to lead to sterilisation of persons without their knowledge" (Jofen, J. "Long range effects of medical experiments in concentration camps: the effect of administration of estrogen to the mother on the intelligence of the offspring", in The Fifth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem 2, 55, 1972 quoted in The Bitter Pill by Ellen Grant, p. 169)
It is said that Margaret Sanger was a conduit for Rockefeller and McCormick money to Gregory Pincus. "She" put two million dollars over a ten year span into his work. "She" persuaded G. D. Searle to test market it. ( Grand Illusions, p. 74-75 ). The London Trials were financed by the Oliver Bird Trust working through the CIFC. Eleanor Mears q.v. and Margaret Pyke q.v. were Eugenics Society Members. (see The Bitter Pill, CH & WSW 1990)
Research Project Needed:
But did it happen this way? or did Pincus repeat concentration camp research?
The key point was that a hormone inhibited ovulation and that this could be taken orally. If the Nazis discovered this in Auschwitz, then Pincus could have been told verbally of this research. The actual formula that worked could have been written on a scrap of paper. The final formula need not have been the one that Jean Jofen found. We know that Mengele took his more valuable records away. So Dr. Jofen could have found an intermediate formula, proof that the camp research was going in a certain direction.
"The Pill" that Pincus found "worked" in that it did not cause death immediately nor grow hair on the face of women. (This did happen to Auschwitz twin experiment subjects. (Children of Flame) No one knows what the experiments were although everyone knows that the Nazi's were looking for a mass sterilization agent. "Mass sterilization agent" is another word for contraceptive.
But the Pincus Pill did cause somewhat subtle immediate damage and it caused long term damage. This may have been missed in the camps as the subjects were mostly exterminated before any long term damage could have shown itself.
Pincus could have been in contact with the Schering experiments going on in concentration camps. We know he was given a pep pill which American Schering was said to have developed. Pincus tried it out on pilots in America. (see Journal of Aviation Medicine 1942-43)
Links
Oliver Bird was member of the Alfred Bird family. This family owned Bird's Custards. George Cadbury q.v. worked for the Bird company, then became director of the United Nations Technical Assistance Administration from 1951-60. Then he became an important figure in the Canadian New Democratic Party and in the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
Vivian Bird of the Bird family, in 1967, translated The Religion of the Indo-Europeans by Hans K. Gunther, a Nazi anthropologist and eugenicist. He was assisted by Roger Pearson of the Eugenics Society, an important figure on the racist journal, Mankind Quarterly. (see Pearson, R. q.v.; Gates, R.R q.v.)
Mankind Quarterly is a racist journal still pumping out venom in 1994, still influenced by Roger Pearson. Josef Mengele's co-researcher at Auschwitz, Von Verschuer, was on the editorial advisory board of this journal before his death in 1970.
Source: International Company Histories, Current Biography, Margaret Sanger, Father of Modern Society, Bird family history in Birmingham public library, "Roger Pearson", "George P. Cadbury" entries in The Dismal Scientists (ES list), Mankind Quarterly 1960, 1989, The Last Nazi, Children of Flame

Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, Richmond, Surrey 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

Waterloo St., Brantford, Ont., Canada
Eugenics Society Fellow 1957
Source: ER 1957

Down End, Twyford, Winchester
Eugenics Society Life Fellow 1937, 1957
Personal: Cmdr. Royal Navy 1937; 1937 address Lime Tree Cottage, Letwell, Worksop, Notts
Source: ESAR 1037, ER 1957

Eugenics Society Member 1944
Source: ER 1944

14 Cromwell Rd. Hove, Sussex 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Eire 1957
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937, 1957
Personal: 1937 address: Jonesborough Rectory, Newry, Co. Down, Ireland
Source: ESAR 1937, ER 1957

Upton by Chester, Chester

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

Eugenics Society Vice President 1921, 1931
Personal:
see AES list;
President: New York Zoological Society, American Museum of Natural History, NY
son of Osborn of the railroads
His descendants, Henry Fairfield Osborn and Frederick Osborn, helped to build up eugenics
uncle of Frederick Osborn q.v.
Pubns:
"Birth Selection vs. Birth Control", Science, 26 Aug, 173-9, 1932
Source: ER 1921, 1931, Margaret Sanger: Father of Modern Society, WWW, WWWIA, Breeding Ourselves to Death.

Rm. 2715, 230 Park Ave., Helmsley Hotel, New York, NY, USA 1957
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937, Consultative Council 1957
Personal:
nephew of Henry Fairfield Osborn Sr. q.v.; Frederick Osborn was the most important figure in the American Eugenic Society in the post war years (see AES list); Princeton 1910; Trinity College, Cambridge 1911; father was on the Board of Trustees of Princeton University and helped Frederick Osborn found the Office of Population Research at Princeton as part of the Woodrow Wilson School; 1937 address: 111 Broadway, New York, NY, USA; Chmn., Advisory Cttee on Selective Service (see P.E. Vernon q.v., A.D. Buchanan Smith q.v. (blacks were made to be cooks and clerks); Major General in Charge of Morale, WWII; US rep on Atomic Energy Commission; co-founder w/ John D. Rockefeller of the Population Council; "furthered the establishment of UN Demographic training centres" Obit
Pubns:
1951 Preface to Eugenics; "The Eugenic Hypothesis: (i) "Positive Eugenics" ER April 1952 p. 31 (ii) Negative Eugenics" ER, 1952-53; 1956 "Galton and Mid Century Eugenics" Galton Lecture; 1960 "A return to the principles of natural selection", EQ, v. 7, p. 204; 1963 "Eugenics and the Races of Man", EQ, v. 10, p. 103; 1965 "Biological Aspects of Social Problems", ER, v. 57, p. 182
Source: ESAR 1937; ER 1957, Current Biography, Obit in Bulletin of the Eugenic Society 1981, p. 47
Quotes:
Cryptoeugenics: We will "...base our proposals on the desirability of having children born in homes where they will get affectionate and responsible care ...(so that eugenics) ...will move at last towards the high goal which Galton set for it." Osborn quoted in Obit, Bulletin of the Eugenic Society 1981, p. 47
"Eugenic goals are most likely to be achieved under a name other than eugenic."
Background:
He saw " fluctuations of birth rates and gene pools not as competition between super races subject to emotional value judgments, but as the results of natural events, and as subject to study and verification as any other natural process" his son on Osborn, quoted in Obit, Bulletin of the Eugenic Society 1981, p. 47
The Eugenic Hypothesis:
This holds that social situations can be so manipulated that the wrong sort of people will "choose" not to have the children. For example, Robert Moses refused to put any money into parks in Harlem as Robert Caro has shown in his biography of Moses, Robert Moses and the Fall of New York.
Now blacks are aborting their children because Harlem is not a good place to raise them. If this had been done by Rockefeller or Harriman it would be an application of the eugenic hypothesis; it is a perfect example of how the theory would work in practice. However it was not done by them. It was done by Moses - while they were Governors of New York.
Quote:
"environmental pressures... there is certainly a possibility that these pressures can be given a better direction and can be brought to bear on a majority of the population instead of a minority", from "The Eugenic Hypothesis (i) Positive Eugenics"
"social and psychological pressures brought to bear on young people and parents" from "Eugenic Hypothesis (ii) Negative Eugenics" p. 97
Purpose of the Eugenics Society:
"...to seek out the genetically valuable individuals ... with the attempt to reduce births among the less valuable" (see also F. Lafitte q.v.)
Means:
1. Manipulate the Environment
"... environmental pressures ... there is certainly a possibility that these pressures can be given a better direction and can be brought to bear on a majority of the population instead of a minority" "... social and psychological pressures brought to bear on young people and parents" "... if we can succeed in giving direction to social forces which will effect this kind of environmental selection" "selection based on early success in responding to the environment"
2. Manipulate Attitudes
"the new methods for gathering objective data on individual and group attitudes and motivations and their statistical analysis ... (are) ... tools for working on some of the possible applications of science to human affairs" "... the proposal ... would be put forward on the ground that more children would grow up in the best home environments, with no public argument made for eugenics."
Source for above quotes: "The Eugenic Hypothesis" (1) Positive Eugenics (2) Negative Eugenics, ER April & July 1952; "Galton and Mid Century Eugenics" Galton Lecture 1956
3. Supply Contraceptives and Abortion
"... there are means of selection which do not require that we humiliate ... when family planning has spread to all members of the population and means of effective contraception are readily available ..." couples will have children in relation to their income, that is, in relation to their socially valuable qualities.

Scarsdale, Douglas Ave. Exmouth 1937
Eugenics Society Life Fellow 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

68 Harborne Rd., Edgbaston, Birmingham 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

115a Harley St., London
Eugenics Society Consultative Council 1937, 1957
Personal: Fellow, Royal College of Physicians
Source: ESAR 1937, ER 1957

Brighton
Eugenics Society V.P. 1916
Source: ER 1916, Men Behind Hitler, p. 87

Headington, Oxford
Eugenics Society Fellow 1955, 1957, 1977
Personal: Diploma in Child Health
Pubns:
1955-56 "Genetic and Social Aspects of Epilepsies of Childhood", ER, v. 47, p. 33
Source: ER 1955, 1957, 1977 list

Eugenics Society Member 1948
Source: ER 1948-49

Fairford, The Avenue, Worcester Park, Surrey 1937, 1957
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937, 1957
Source: ESAR 1937, ER 1957

Eugenics Society Member 1964
Source: ER 1964

Eugenics Society Council 1910, 1916
Source: ER 1910, 1916, Men Behind Hitler, p. 87

Eugenics Society Member 1949
Source: ER 1948-49