Eugenics Society Members List - P-Q.

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.

Packard, Mr. Arthur W.

Eugenics Society Member 1937
Source: ER 1937

6 North St., Wincanton, Somerset 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1936, 1937
Source: ER 1936, ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Member 1986
Source: B&S 1988

Ovingham House, Ovingham, Northd. 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1937
Source: ER 1937, ESAR 1937

Ibstock Place, Priory Lane, Roehampton, London SW15, 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Member 1933
Source: ER 1933

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

Eugenics Society Member 1963
Source: ER 1963

Eugenics Society Member 1985
Source: B&S 1986

Mixbury, Goring on Thames, Oxon. 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

c\o Swedish Legation, 27 Portland Pl., London W1, 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

11 Hatherly St., London
Eugenics Society Member 1956, 1957, 1977
Personal: 134 Leighton St., London 1957
Source: ER 1956, 1957, 1977 list

Eugenics Society Fellow 1959
Source: ER 1959

Canford Cliffs, Poole, Dorset 1957
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937, 1957
Personal: MB, BS 1931; MD 1952; 1937 address: Warwickshire and Coventry Mental Hospital, Hatton, Warwickshire; 1957, ex medical Supt., Holloway Sanatarium, Warwick
Source: ER 1937, 1957, ESAR 1937, Medical Directory 1958

Eugenics Society Member 1948
Source: ER 1948

Eugenics Society Fellow 1937
Personal: Diploma in Public Health
Source: ER 1937

Eugenics Society Fellow 1963
Personal: Diploma in Psychological Medicine
Source: ER 1963

Royal Institution, Albemarle St., London W1, 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

Cambridge Univ.
Eugenics Society Member 1930 Fellow 1937, 1957, 1977 Secretary 1963-68 President 1968-70
Chairman, Galton Foundation which published Journal of Biosocial Science 1969-85 ; Journal of Biosocial Sciences used his address, 1 The Bramleys, Sheproth, Royston, Herts 1981; Founder, Cryogenics; Mem., Staff of the National Institute for Medical Research, London, 1932-61 (which includes the period in which his protege, R.G. Edwards q.v., was there)
Personal: b. 1900; d. 1990; PhD on sex ratio in mammals from Manchester in 1923; Beit Memorial Research Fellow 1924-30; in Dept. of Physiology, University College London 1923-31; 1937 address National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead, London NW3, 1937; subscriber to Journal of Endocrinology 1939; 1960 address, Rhodes Farm, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London; Mary Marshall Prof. of Physiology of Reproduction, Univ. of Cambridge 1961-67; Chmn. of Soc. for Study of Fertility 1963-66; Sec., Jls. of Reproduction and Fertility Ltd. 1960-76; Consultant to International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) 1969-79; V.P., Family Planning Association 1981
Pubns:
"Aspects of Reproduction in Relation to Eugenics", ER 1923-24,15, 571; The Internal Secretions of the Ovary. 1929; "Problems", ER 1946-47, v. 38, p. 19; "The Primrose Path, Some Aspects of the Population Problem", Galton Lecture 1950; "The Freezing of Living Cells", Scientific American, June, 1956, p. 105; Genetic & Environmental Factors in Human Ability. 1966 w/ J.E. Meade referred to in Everyman's Encyclopedia, "Eugenics" article, Vol 4, 1978; Sex, Science and Society. 1966; "The Mothers Clinic", 3rd Marie Stopes Memorial Lecture reported in Journal of Biosocial Science April 1974; Off Beat Biologist. 1985 (Autobiob.); articles in Jl. of Endocrinology and other jls.; (ed.) Marshall's Physiology of Reproduction. (3rd edn. 1952, 4th edn. in prep. 1990); Off Beat Biologist includes chps. on FPA, IPPF and Oliver Bird Trust
Source: WSW 1990, CH, ESAR 1937, ER 1957, ER, Journal of Biosocial Science, 1977 list, Jls of Reproduction

Eugenics Society Member 1946
Source: ER 1945-46

87 Station Rd., Wylde Green, Sutton Coldfield, Warwicks
Eugenics Society Fellow 1959, 1977
Personal: ret by 1985; MB, BCh 1939; DM Oxon 1951; Hon. Cons. Physician (Geriatric), Birmingham North Health District; Physician, Institute of Social Medicine, Oxford 1947; Physician, External Scientific Staff, Medical Research Council (MRC)
Pubns:
Behaviour and Physique: An Introduction to Practical and Applied Somametry. 1958; Physique and Family Structure", ER, v. 51, p. 75; "Significance of Somatype and Other Signs in Psychiatric Prognosis and Treatment", Proc. Royal Society of Medicine 1962 (In research related to the field of somametry, nude pictures of all Yale students were taken and stored including pictures of Bill and Hilary Clinton. This collection was recently destroyed.)
Source: ER 1959, 1977 list, Medical Directory 1985

Eugenics Society Member 1945
Source: ER 1945-46

Cobham, Surrey
Eugenics Society Member 1942, 1957
Source: ER 1942, 1957

Eugenics Society Member 1989
Source: B&S 1989

17 Parkstone Rd., Poole, Dorset 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1933, 1937
Source: ER 1933, ESAR 1937

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

Eugenics Society Fellow 1961-62
Pubns:
The Genetic Analysis of Behaviour. 1967 (London, Methuen)
Source: ER 1961-62

Eugenics Society Member 1958
Personal: a woman
Source: ER 1958

Eugenics Society Fellow 1945
Source: ER 1945-46

18 Harley St., London W1, 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1932, 1937
Pubns:
"The size of the family of the business, professional and titled classes", ER, v. 35, p. 57
Source: ER 1932, ESAR 1937, ER Oct. 1943-Jan. 1944 (Title page)

Nock Hill, Denham, Bucks 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1932, 1937
Source: ER 1932, ESAR 1937

Grand Home, Aberdeenshire 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

8 Buckingham Palace Gardens, London SW1, 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

Dept. of Political Science
State Univ. College, Fredonia, New York, USA
Eugenics Society Member 1965, 1977
Source: ER 1965, 1977 list

49 Nevern Square, London SW5, 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1933, 1937
Source: ER 1933, ESAR 1937

Horncastle, Lincs
Eugenics Society Member 1950, 1957
Source: ER 1950, 1957

London
Eugenics Society Member 1977
Personal: Associate Member, Institute of Taxation
Source: 1977 list

Eugenics Society Member 1939
Source: ER 1939

Biology Dept., Merchant Taylors School, Liverpool
Eugenics Society Member 1977
Source: 1977 list

34 Egerton Gardens, London SW3, 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Member 1937
Source: ER 1937

Institute for the Study of Man
1785 Mass. Ave, Washington DC, USA 20036
Eugenics Society Member 1963 Fellow 1977
Personal: b. 1927; London; anthropologist; Fellow, Corporation of Secretaries; 1958 Founded Northern League " to foster the interests, friendship and solidarity of all Teutonic nations"; recruited Hans Gunther, who received awards under the Nazi regime for his work on race, Ernest Cox of the Ku Klux Klan and Dr. Wilhelm Kesserow, a former SS Untersturmfuhrer; 1978 organised 11th Conference of the World Anti-Communist League; resigned after being accused of membership in several Nazi groups; sent Mankind Quarterly (see R.R. Gates q.v.) to Pres. Reagan; Director, Institute for the Study of Man which is supported by the Pioneer Fund (see also Institute for the Study of Man in Africa); Director, Council for Social and Economic Studies
Pubns:
1991 Race, Intelligence and Bias in Academe; Essays on Eugenics and Race. 1958, Northern World, Coventry; Mankind Quarterly 1960; The Religious Attitudes of the Indo-Europeans. 1966, 1967 Hans Gunther, trans. by Vivian Bird (See Oliver Bird Trust and George Cadbury) in collaboration with Roger Pearson ("a work first published in Nazi Germany", ER 1967, p. 283, review by Pocock q.v.)
Source: ER 1963, 1977 list for name and address; other information, unless specified, from story: "Academics were funded by racist American trust" by Tim Kelsey and Trevor Howard, The Independent on Sunday, 4 March 1990 Home section p. 4 ; see also many stories on Bell Curve in mainline journals; the Bell Curve used many Pioneer Fund grantees/eugenic society members/Mankind Quarterly writers)

Eugenics Society Member 1948
Personal: Supt. of Mundesley Sanatorium, Norfolk where Richard Rumbold q.v. stayed
Source: Obit, ER 1950 July, p. 112

Eugenics Society Fellow 1932
Source: ER 1932

Reynolds Close, Girton, Cambs 1937, 1957 Eugenics Society Member 1926 Council 1931, 1932 Fellow 1937, 1957 Pubns: 1933 "Acquired Characters", ER, v. 25, pp. 171 72; 1933-34 "Professor McDougall's Lamarkian experiment", ER, v. 25, p. 253 (see W. McDougall, ES and AES)
Source: Articles of Association, 1926, ER 1931-32, 1957, ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Member 1947
Source: ER 1947

10 Oxnam Cres., Newcastle upon Tyne
Eugenics Society Fellow 1959, 1977
Personal: MD (Durham) 1939; ex-Cons. Psychiatrist, Newcastle General Hospital; Supt., Day Hospital, Perth, West Australia
Pubns:
chp. in Sex and Its Problems. 1968
Source: ER 1959, 1977 list, Medical Directory 1991

10 Oxnan Cres., Newcastle upon Tyne
Eugenics Society Fellow 1959, 1977
Personal: wife of G.R. Peberdy q.v.; nee Lews; ret. by 1991; MRCS, LRCP 1939; ex Lect. in Family Planning, Univ. of Newcastle; ex Senr. Medical Officer, Newcastle upon Tyne Family Planning Clinic
Pubns:
"Fertility Control Among Problem Parents: a five year experiment in Newcastle upon Tyne", in Biological Aspects of Social Problems. 1965 Parkes q.v. and Meade q.v.; "Oral Contraception and Blood Platelet Adhesiveness", Lancet 1965; "Family Planning as Social Medicine", Lancet 1968
Source: ER 1959, 1977 list, Medical Directory 1991

Dept. of Social Studies Teeside Polytechnic, Middlesborough, Teeside
Eugenics Society Editorial Board, ER 1968 Fellow 1963, 1977 Treasurer 1967, 1979-1989, 1992, 1994
Personal: Head of Dept. of Social Studies, Teeside Polytechnic 1973; retired university lecturer
Source: ER Vol. 60 ASP's Hist p. 157, CH, B&S, 1977 list, ER 1963, Galton Institute Annual Report 1993, Brooks letter on annual meeting 1994
Background:
Welcome Back Herbert Spencer Dept.
Teeside Polytechnic recently reorganised so that the Dept. of Social Studies became part of the School of Health, Social and Policy Studies. There are vocational courses including a Master's degree in Social Research; Bachelor's degrees in Public Administration and Psychology; Diplomas in District Nursing and Community Psychiatric Nursing; and Certificates in Theory and Practice of Counselling. The School includes two research units: The Centre for Local Research and the Centre for the Study of Adult Life. There are links with "public sector health and social service organisations and these links combined with research and conference organisation on an international scale are an important feature of the School's activities." from Teeside Polytechnic Prospectus1992, p. 56.
Courses: under consideration, BA (Hon.) Social Policy, 3 years. "a new modular degree"... Core Studies will include British and European Social Policy, Policy Analysis, The Community, and The Philosophical Underpinnings of Welfare Provision."; under consideration, BSc (Hon.) Sociology. "new modular course...to construct a broad sociology degree... (or)... specialise in ... health and aging ... gender ... race, and the third world."; BA (Hon.) Public Administration" aims to educate people who will aspire to senior appointments in a wide range of public, private and voluntary organisations ... (courses include) ... Politics, Economics, Sociology and Psychology ... Public Finance, Policy Analysis." from Teeside Polytechnic Prospectus. 1992, p. 57, 58, 59

Eugenics Society Hon. Treasurer 1970
Personal: Senior Lect. in Sociology, Univ. of York 1970
Source: CH

81 Harley St., London
Eugenics Society Fellow 1944, 1957
Personal: FRCOG 1944; Director of Clinical Studies, King's College Hospital Medical School, 1948-67; Past Examiner: Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, Liverpool, Bristol, Glasgow, Newcastle, Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Birmingham, Dundee, Sheffield, Conjoint Board, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (RCOG), and CMB President: RCOG 1966-69 (Hon. Treasurer 1959-66, Councillor,1955); BMA 1970; Family Planning Association Pres. 1971-74; HM Gynecologist 1961-73; Mem., Economic and Social Commission EEC, Chmn., Group 3
Pubns:
Textbook of Gynaecology. 1943; "Progress in Knowledge and Management of Pregnancy in the Diabetic.", American Jl. of Ob-Gyn 1962; "Peel Report on the Use of Fetuses and Fetal Material for Research", 1972 H.M.S.O.; Chmn: "Unplanned Pregnancy: Report of a Working Party of the RCOG", 1972; "Report of the Panel on Human Artificial Insemination", BMJ supplement, 1973, 7 April, Vol II, p. 3-5 (Recommended NHS support for Human Artificial Insemination); Lives of the Fellows of the RCOG 1929-69. 1976
Source: ER 1944, 1957, WSW 1990, Peel Report, Medical Directory 1957, Medical Register 1957
Background:
Abortion on Demand:
"at the present time, let's face it, the Act is acting as abortion on demand ... Abortions are being done even in ... large sections of the NHs ... for social reasons ... and not even seriously considered social reasons; even trivial inconveniences, and patients get abortions done", from interview with Keown quoted in Abortion, Doctors, and the Law. 1988, p. 194 (Notes) Check quote?? Human Experimentation: Prof. Malcolm McNaughten (Muirhead Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Glasgow, 1970-); kept live fetuses from abortions; exposed them to radiation; ground them up with sand in a pestle and studied them. (Source: Journal of Endocrinology, Vol. 39, pp. 153-62 and Vol. 44, pp. 481-88) Peel had nothing to do with this but did produce a report on human experimentation and also commented upon it, so the reference to McNaughten is included here because all the references to human experimentation are gathered here. Background on Human Experimentation 1974-1989 - After Abortion Act 1967: "...three Boards send some fetal material to other hospitals and two send some to human genetics laboratories ... (What about large fetuses?)... About 75 per cent disposed of them by incineration and about 50 percent of these also sent some to laboratories. The other Boards sent fetuses to the Public Health Laboratory, other hospitals or for research within the Hospital ... Nine (Boards) mentioned that fetuses were used for research ..." (from Lane Report 1974, Appendix to Section K -) - After Peel Report 1972: ... there are other whole live embryos and foetuses of greater gestational age, which may become available for research following termination of pregnancy ... The Code of Practice contained in the Report on "The Use of Fetuses and Fetal Material for Research" (Peel Report) HMSO 1972 ... a less formal mechanism governing the research use of whole live embryos and foetuses of more advanced gestation..." (from the Warnock Report, HMSO 1984, p. 64 (Note)) Peel on Human Experimentation 1984: "you do not use a human as a guinea pig unless it is a bona fide attempt to improve the condition of that individual. . . No one can conceive that experimenting on an artificially-produced embryo can be to the benefit of that embryo. The argument that it might benefit others is a red herring." on embryo experiments in Edinburgh University MRC Unit (see David Baird in Baird, Dugald q.v.), from The Guardian paper, Sept. 28, 1984 - After Polkinghorne Report 1989: "Rule 4 of the Peel Code permits the use of the whole pre-viable fetus for research, and (provided the fetus weighs less than 300 grams), no requirement of absence of signs of life is imposed ... intervention on a living fetus should carry only minimal risk of harm ... the action is, on balance, for the benefit of the fetus." (Polkinghorne Report 1989)

Stockton on Tees, Cleveland
Eugenics Society Fellow 1977 V.P. 1985, 1991, 1992, 1994
Personal: Robert Anthony Peel; educ. Cambridge Univ.; Orpington, Kent 1985; civil servant
Pubns: editor, Galton Institute Newsletter 1991
Source: 1977 list, CH, Galton Institute Newsletter 1991, Galton Institute Annual Report 1993, Brooks letter on annual meeting 1994
Quotes:
"Much of classical economic theory has been based on Darwinism ... economists have rarely been clear as to the unit or purpose of economic competition." from Caradog Jones Lecture on "Natural Selection, Social Evolution and Economic Strategy" as reviewed by Robert Peel in Bulletin of the Eugenic Society 1981, p. 44

Eugenics Society Member 1960
Source: ER 1960

Sans Souci, Moratuwa, Ceylon 1937, 1957
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937, 1957
Source: ESAR 1937, ER 1957

Hinton House, Byfield, Northants 1937
Eugenics Society Life Fellow 1937
Personal: Earl of Yarborough; see under Yarborough; note Hinton House (query G.H.L.F. Pitt Rivers)
Source: ESAR 1937

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

Eugenics Society Member 1938 Source: ER 1938-39

Redhill, Surrey
Eugenics Society Member 1965, 1977 Council 1989
Personal: Mothercare, Dept. of Pediatric Genetics, Institute of Child Health, London 1990; BSc 1963; MD 1978; Lect. in Medicine, St. Thomas Hospital Medical School
Pubns:
8th edition of An Introduction to Medical Genetics. 1985 (in use for 45 years); 1992 "Diabetes mellitus associated with a pathogenic point mutation in mitochondrial DNA", w/W. Reardon, RJM Ross, Mary G. Sweeney, Linda M Luxon, AE Harding, R.C. Trembath in The Lancet, v. 340, Dec. 5, p. 1376
Source: ER 1965, 1977 list, Medical Directory 1991, CH Human Genome Project:
"...a distinction between the medical genetic interest and the human genetic interest ... If medical benefit is going to be used as a major justification for the genome project, and mapping and sequencing is left to current methods of organizing and funding such research, there is a danger that progress will only be rapid for a subset of human genes -- those where mutations cause disease." from CIBA Symposium Human Genetic Information: Science, Law, Ethics. 1990 Wiley. (see Bodmer, W. q.v.)
Genetic Counselling:
"In genetic counselling one becomes aware that one must present the risk figures but one must also emphasize to the potential parent that it is not just a theoretical figure but also an empirical observation..." from CIBA Symposium Human Genetic Information: Science, Law, Ethics.1990 Wiley, p. 30
Genetic Advisory Centres 1983
- North East Thames Regional Health Authority Genetic Clinic, Institute of Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormonde St., London

Eugenics Society Council 1909-11, 1910 First International Eugenics Congress 1912, General Committee
Source: ER 1909-11, 1910; Problems in Eugenics. 1912 (repr.)

47 Lexden Rd., Colchester 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1931, 1937
Source: ER 1931, ESAR 1937

London
Eugenics Society Member 1941, 1957
Source: ER 1941, 1957

Eugenics Society Member 1953
Source: ER 1953

Eugenics Society Member 1959
Personal: Diploma in Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery; Diploma in Public Health; a woman
Source: ER 1959

France
Eugenics Society V.P. 1916 First International Eugenics Congress 1912, Vice President
Personal: President, Societie Francaise d'Eugenique; Director, Natural History Museum, Paris 1912
Source: Men Behind Hitler, p. 87; ER 1916; Problems in Eugenics. 1912 (repr.)

Reform Club, Pall Mall, London SW1, 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

42 Lady Margaret Rd., Southhall, Middlesex 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1936, 1937
Source: ER 1936, 1937

Eugenics Society Member 1983
Source: B&S 1984

Newcastle upon Tyne
Eugenics Society Member 1957 Fellow 1977
Personal: Studied under Curt Stern (see AES list) at Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology, Berlin Dahlem; then worked with JBS Haldane 1933-47 (see Naomi Mitchison q.v.); Senr. Lect. in Zoology, Newcastle University 1964
Pubns: 1964-65 "Genetics and Eugenics in post war Germany", ER, v. 56, p. 91
Source: ER 1957, ER 1964 p. 66, 1977 list
Quotes:
Auschwitz Coverup:
"Prof. Hans Nachtsheim, the eminent mammalian geneticist ... advocates legislation to allow voluntary sterilization ... Only a scientist who maintained his independence of Nazi doctrine is in a position to do this." from "Genetics and Eugenics in Post War Germany" ER 1964, p. 91 by Ursula Philip; Nachtsheim did not maintain such a distance as Philip implies. Both Nachtsheim and Philip were at the Kaiser Wilhelm and Nachtsheim was there under Verschuer. Nachtsheim became director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute after the war and was a member of the American Eugenic Society together with Verschuer in 1956. After the war Verschuer was cleared by the de-Nazification Tribunal although he was the actual director of Mengele's experiments. (see Children of Flame.) Nachtsheim sought five year old children for experiments in inducing epilepsy by simulated high altitudes in hyperbaric chambers. It was the duty of people like Miss Phillips to expose men like Nachtsheim, not to defend them.

Birdcage Walk (Regimental HQ), London SW1
Eugenics Society Fellow 1947, 1957 Member 1977
Personal: 1957 address Coldstream Guards, Regimental HQ; Military Cross; 1977 address, Basingstoke, Hants
Source: ER 1947, 1957, 1977 list

London
Eugenics Society Member 1955, 1957
Source: ER 1955, 1957

Eugenics Society Member 1948
Source: ER 1948-49

Eugenics Society Member 1939
Source: ER 1939

Monmouth
Eugenics Society Fellow 1957
Pubns:
The Next British Empire: a population policy for home amenity and empire defence. 1938 (suggests moving people at the rate of one million a year to Canada; reviewed in ER 1938, p. 140); The Limits of Mankind. 1956
Source: ER 1957

Treen, Godalming 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

8 Old Bond St, London W1, 1937
Eugenic Society Member 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

14 Grove End Rd., London NW 8
Eugenics Society Fellow 1944, 1957 V.P. 1949 Council 1959
Personal: Coldstream Guards 1930-35 (Reserve of Officers); MP for Widnes 1935-45; Civil Lord of the Admiralty
Source: CH, ER 1944, 1957, WWW

Highgate, London N 6
Eugenics Society Member 1949 Fellow 1957, 1977
Sex and Morality Report, British Council of Churches, jt. author 1966
Personal: b. 17 Jan 1915; 3rd son of Richard Austin Pilkington; educ. Freibourg, Germany; Cambridge (MA, PhD) genetics 1937; Chmn., London Missionary Society 1962; Channel Islands 1977; lives in France 1990 (his brother was a director of Pilkington Glass Ltd. 1943-81)
Pubns:
Stringer's Folly; Biology, Man and God.; Sons and Daughters. 1951; How Your Life Began. 1953; Revelation Through Science. 1954; The Facts of Life. 1956; Facts of Life for Parents. 1963 and many books called Small Boat to ...)
Source: ER 1949, 1957, 1977 list, WSW 1990

Kodak House, Hornby Rd., Bombay, India 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1937, Fellow 1947
Personal: b. 1890; d. 1956; Eugenic Clinic in Bombay 1935; Captain 1937; Organizer, All-India Population Conference 1938; Officer, Order of the British Empire; see autobiography of Lady Rama Rao for significance of Pillay
Pubns:
Welfare Problems of Rural India. 1931; editor: Marriage Hygiene journal (Kama Sutra advocated), Journal of Family Welfare (1st issue, Nov. 1954); Sex, Society and the Individual. 1953
Source: ER 1935, 1947, ESAR 1937, Around the World News of Population and Family Planning 1955 February, Obit ER 1956-57, 48, p. 139 (N)

76 New Road, Gravesend 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937, 1943-44
Personal: d. 1943-44; Order of the British Empire 1937
Source: ESAR 1937; Obit ER 1943-44, p. 24

Eugenics Society Consultative Council 1937
Pubns:
1944-45 "Deterrents to Parenthood", ER, v. 36, p. 41 (C)
Source: ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Council 1911 First International Eugenics Congress 1912, General Committee
Personal: see Lady Adrian
Source: ER 1911, WSW 1990, WWW; Problems in Eugenics. 1912 (repr.)

43 Bishopsgate, London EC2 1957
Eugenics Society Life Fellow 1937, 1957
Personal: 1937 address, 21 Mulberry Walk, London SW3, 1937
Source: ESAR 1937, ER 1957

Eugenics Society Member 1946
Source: ER 1946

Eugenics Society Member 1947
Source: ER 1947

Eugenics Society Fellow 1932
Personal: b. Rosalind Henley; 1931 m. George Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers q.v. (div. 1938, Burke's Landed Gentry); FRS 1954; National Institute of Medical Research, Staff 1942-72 (head of Chemistry division 1969-72); Dept. of Pharmacology, University College London 1972-85
Pubns:
The Thyroid Hormones. 1959 w/ Jamshed Rustom Tata (Jamshed Rustom Tata; Head, Laboratory of Developmental Biochemistry, National Institute for Medical Research 1973-; Beit Memorial Fellow 1959-60; Vis. Scientist, Wenner Gren Inst., Stockholm 1960-62);
The Chemistry of Thyroid Diseases. 1960; w/ W.R. Trotter; The Thyroid Gland. 1964
Source: ER 1932, WSW 1990, Burke's Landed Gentry

Eugenics Society Member 1931
Personal: could be Mrs. Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers q.v.
Source: ER 1931

Manor House, Hinton St. Mary, Dorset 1937, 1957
Eugenics Society Council 1931-32, 1937-38 Life Fellow 1937, 1957
Member of Council of Eugenic Society for twenty years; according to his biography in Who Was Who, he was "held political prisoner by the Home Secretary 1940-42"; acc to Malcom Muggeridge: "The house where the unit was stationed belonged to G.H.L. Fox Pitt Rivers who had been interned under Regulation 18b for his pro Hitler attitudes, and in his library there was an elegantly bound presentation copy of Mein Kampf... [Pitt Rivers was] very rich ... [his wife was] an actress ... Mary Hinton" see Lady Forster q.v., (from Chronicles of Wasted Time, Malcolm Muggeridge, p. 391)
Personal: George Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, ADC Baron Foster
(Baron Foster; see Lady Foster q.v., Gov. Gen. Australia 1922-25)
Secretary General and Hon. Treasurer, International Union for Scientific Investigation of Population (1928-37); d. 1966; m. Rachel, dau. of Baron Foster q.v. (div. 1930); m. 1931 Dr. Rosalind Venetia Henley q.v.
- son, Julian Alfred
(Julian Alfred; Prof. of Anthropology, London School of Economics 1972-; The People of the Sierra. 1954, (2nd ed. 1971); "I was relieved when the book was reviewed that no critic headed his article 'Corruption in Fascist Spain', for it would have been awkward for me to deny that, for those who wish to give it such emphasis, this is what the book is about (though I put it very differently myself." Julian Pitt Rivers, Preface to Second Edition, The People of the Sierra, p. xiii)
Pubns: Weeds in the Garden of Marriage. 1931; "Sex Ratios and Marriage", 1929 ER, v. 21, p. 21-28; "The effect on native races of contact with European civilization", 1927, Man, v. 27; The Clash of Culture and the Contact of Races. 1927
Background: A.H.L.F. Pitt Rivers; founded South Kensington Museum; collection now in Oxford Pitt Rivers Museum; inherited 29,000 acres called Cranborne Close, Dorset; did chalk country excavations: Excavations in Cranborne Close; 1st inspector of ancient monuments after Ancient Monuments Act passed; Anthropological Institute (Pres.); The Evolution of Culture and Other Essays 1906 (Source: DNB, v. 22, Suppl.)
Source: ER 1931-32, 1957, ESAR 1937, WSW 1990, WWW, Burke's
Background:
- Lt. Gen. Augustus Henry Lane Fox-Pitt-Rivers; FRS; b. 1827; m. dau of Baron Stanley
- AHLFPR's daughter, Alice Augusta; m. 1st Baron Avebury q.v. 1884
- Maj. Gen. William Augustus Lane Fox-Pitt Rivers; CVO, DSO; b. 1896; grandson

Eugenics Society Member 1989
Source: ER 1989

Eugenics Society Member 1964
Source: ER 1964

Orthopaedic Surgery, Manchester Univ., Manchester
Eugenics Society President 1965-68 Fellow 1977
Personal: MB, BCh (Manchester) 1909; MD 1921; Founding Trustee, Galton Foundation (Publisher of the Journal of Biosocial Science 1969); Dept. of Orthopaedics, Manchester Royal Infirmary 1934-51 (Prof. of Orthopaedic Surgery 1939-51, Prof. of Medicine, Manchester 1945-65, Emeritus Prof., Orthopaedic Surgery); Cons. in Orthopaedic Surgery, Lancashire County Council 1920-57; Cons. Adv. in Orthopaedics to Ministry of Health 1940-63; Pres., Royal College of Physicians (1957-62); Chmn., Clinical Research Bd., MRC 1964-67; RAMC 1939-45; Pres., International Federation of Surgical Coll. 1958-66; WHO member of Expert Advisory Panel on Maternity, Child Welfare UK; Chmn: Cttee on Welfare of Children in Hospitals (see Dr. E. Tylden) 1958, Cttee for Reform of Nursing Education 1964; Mem., Spens Cttee; Pres.: Central Council for the Disabled 1969-, National Fund for Research into Crippling Diseases 1970-
Pubns:
Nephritis and Allied Diseases, 1934; "Inherited Disease in Man", Galton Lecture 1961, ER, v. 53, p. 77; Private and Controversial. 1972; Editor, Quarterly Journal of Medicine
Source: 1977 list, WWW, Burke's 105th edn., Debretts 1990
Background:
dau. married John Bunting Allen, 2 Highfield Rd., Hazel Grove, Manchester; two children; Query if any of these are Stockport magistrates?

Eugenics Society Fellow 1965
Personal: Diploma in Psychological Medicine
Source: ER 1965

Eugenics Society Member 1967
Source: ER 1967

Munich, Germany
Eugenic Society V.P. 1916 First International Eugenics Congress 1912, General Committee, Vice President Nazi; Co-Founder in Germany of the Society for Racial Hygiene (Eugenics) 1905; Pres., International Society for Race Hygiene 1916; reception for Ploetz in London 1910 given by Galton and Montague Crackanthorpe; supported Hitler
Pubns:
Archive for Racial and Social Biology 1904-; Fundamental Outline of Racial Hygiene
Source: ER 1916; Men Behind Hitler, p. 87; ER 1910 Quarterly Chronicle; Problems in Eugenics. 1912 (repr.)
Quotes: 1934 On Jewish Expulsions by Nazi Government:
"May I draw your attention to a few mistakes in your periodical ... the German Society for Race Hygiene was founded ... on June 22, 1905, - a fact which I am able to verify as the founder of it ... On page 44 (of the Eugenical News) ... the word 'expelled' is used. The 60,000 Jews ... were not expelled, with the exception of very small percentage. They did not have to emigrate, nobody chased them away. They went, frightened by the Jewish reports of horror, because they feared, and unjustly, a pogrom. That all reports of horror (with the few exceptions of a few minor cruelties) were deliberately invented, in order to hurt the new government, you must have heard ... in spite of the incessant Jewish propaganda of untruths. A large number of Jews, who had emigrated, have returned to Germany. With friendly greetings, ... Alfred Ploetz" (Letter to Eugenical News 1934, p. 129)
Support for Nazis:
"...the integration of the German sections of Czechoslovakia into the German Reich succeeded in the relatively short time of a few months ... the military, economic and cultural gains are evident, just as the direct and indirect advantages are in the field of racial hygiene ... Through his deeds Hitler moves into the ranks of our greatest leaders since olden times! " (Alfred Ploetz and Ernst Rudin quoted in Men Behind Hitler (MBH), p. 103 from Archiv 1938 Heft 2, S 136)
War Dysgenic:
"A modern war whether carried out victoriously or not, brings about as every racial hygienist knows, ... horrible counter selection ... One would think that such decisive consequences concerning the future of civilized races would have prevented the present war (WWII) ... especially since the foundation of the Third Reich, German racial hygienists have never left any doubt in the minds of other cultured nations and above all England and France ... that a war ... would encompass ... mutual racial extermination" (Ploetz and Rudin p. 99, MBH)
1940 Support for Hitler and White Supremacy:
"It is a tragic fate that Ploetz is no longer alive to witness the solution to the problem of understanding and co-operation among the Nordic peoples, he, who believed so unshakably in the resolute leadership of Adolf Hitler and in his holy mission of national and international racial hygiene" Memorial Notice 1940 by Rudin p. 79, MBH

London
Eugenics Society Propaganda Secretary 1935 Member 1941, 1957
Personal: Sir Charles Arden-Close q.v. was her first cousin
Pubns: "Sterilization in the Empire: An Account of the Working of the Alberta Act.", ER, 1932-33
Source: ER, ER 1935 p. 50, 1941, 1957

School of Economic and Financial Studies
Macquarie Univ., North Ryde, NSW, Australia
Eugenics Society Fellow 1977
Source: 1977 list

School of Economic and Financial Studies
Macquarie Univ., North Ryde, Australia
Eugenics Society Fellow 1967, 1977
Personal: Fellow, Institute of Actuaries
Source: ER 1967, 1977 list

The Grampians, Western Gate, London W6, 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1936, 1937
Pubns:
"Divorce for Insanity", 1933-34, ER, v. 25, p. 131 (C)
Source: ER 1936, ESAR 1937

14 Carver Rd., London SE24, 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Member 1966
Source: ER 1966

Eugenics Society Council 1909-11, 1916 First International Eugenics Congress 1912, General Committee
Source: ER 1909-11, 1916; Problems in Eugenics. 1912 (repr.)

24 Regent Rd., Jersey, Channel Islands 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

Teulon, Old Way, Etchingham, Sussex 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Member 1967
Source: ER 1967

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Eugenics Society Fellow 1965, 1977
Personal: Director, American Eugenics Society
Source: 1965, 1977 list

The Mount, Basingstoke 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

64 Redcliffe Square, London, SW10, 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1926 Fellow 1937 Council 1919-1944
Personal: Mrs. E.E. Potton = Mrs. N. Potton; Eugenics Society representative on the National Baby Council
Source: Articles of Association 1926, ESAR 1937, Obit, ER 1946, p. 48

8 Langbourne Ave., London
Eugenics Society Fellow 1963, 1977 Council 1968, 1984-5, 1989 V.P. 1970, 1978, 1992
Company Director of abortion clinics: Pregnancy Advisory Services Ltd. abortion clinic (a founding director), 1968-77, Fairfield Nursing Home abortion clinic (1975-79) Population Services Family Planning Programme, now called Marie Stopes International, (a founding director) 1973-81; it runs abortion clinics Other Abortion Related Activities: Medical Director, International Planned Parenthood Federation (1966-76); Director, Family Health International, North Carolina, USA, 1980 (developed IUD); Officer: Abortion Law Reform Association (Executive Cttee); Birth Control Campaign (Management Cttee); Brook Advisory Centres (Medical Advisory Cttee)
Pubns:
1983 Textbook of Contraceptive Practice.; 1977 Abortion.; "Legal Abortion in Eastern Europe", 1967, ER, v. 59, p. 232; 300 articles from Family Health International were published in professional journals between 1980 and 1985 (Biology and Society, Vol. 4, 1987); innumerable speeches and articles have Potts' name on them.
Source: ER 1963,1977 list, CH, B&S, WSWIA
Background:
Pregnancy Advisory Services (PAS) referred women to the Fairfield Nursing Home (see Dorothy Kerslake q.v.) until PAS bought the Rosslyn Nursing Home in 1980.
Population Services Family Planning Programme, now called Marie Stopes International, had permission to use the Marie Stopes name and obtained the Whitfield St. property which Marie Stopes had left to the Eugenics Society.
Family Health International is funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and in part by the Population Council. It played an important role in the development of new types of IUD's.
Quotes:
Abortion and Low Birth Weight:
"there seems little doubt that there is a true relationship between the high incidence of therapeutic abortion and prematurity ... a doubling of perinatal mortality in Hungary", from "Legal Abortion in Eastern Europe", ER 1967 by Malcolm Potts; what about Tietze's article?
Abortion and Contraception:
"As people turn to contraception there will be a rise, not a fall in the abortion rate." Cambridge Evening News, 7 Feb. 1973

Dept. of Zoology, Oxford Univ.
Eugenics Society Member 1924 V.P. 1916, 1927 Fellow 1937 Council 1910-11, 1935 First International Eugenics Congress 1912, General Committee
Personal: Prof. of Zoology, Oxford 1893-1933; d. 1943; Pres., Oxford branch, Eugenics Education Society, 1916; Wykeham House, Oxford Univ. 1937; Pres.: Linnean Society, Royal Entomological Society
- Margaret Lucy, his daughter married James Clerk Maxwell Grant
(James Clerk Maxwell Grant, Dean of the Faculty of Technology, University of Manchester 1912-20; Secretary, League of Nations Union 1920-38; Education and World Citizenship. 1921; The World We Mean to Make. 1943)
- JCMG's son was William John Poulton Maxwell Garnett
(William John Poulton Maxwell Garnett; b. 1921; career with ICI 1947-62; Virginia Bottomley, Minister of Health 1992, who did not investigate the problems at the Falloden Nursing Home, an abortion facility, is WJPM Garnett's daughter.)
- JCMG's daughter, Margaret Christian, m. Douglas Jay 1933
(Douglas Jay; b. 1907; City Editor Daily Herald 1937-40; Econ. Sec. to Treasury 1947-50; MP (Lab) 1946-74; Chmn., Common Market Safeguards Campaign 1970-77; Pubns: The Socialist Case. 1937; Who is to Pay for the Peace and War. 1941; After the Common Market. 1968; Sterling. 1985
- D.J. and Margaret Christian Garnett's son is Peter Jay (Peter Jay; Robert Maxwell's chief of staff in 1986; m. daughter of James Callaghan; div.; m. daughter of Peter Kai Thornton; Peter Kai Thornton is the son of Gerald Thornton q.v.)
Pubns:
"Insect Mimicry and the Darwinian Theory of Natural Selection", 1925, Scient. Mo., v. 21, pp. 19 25; "Eugenic Problems After the Great War", 1915 Galton Lecture, ER 1916 17, v. 8, p. 34
Source: ER vol. 35-36 p. 27; ER vol. 60; WWW; CH; ER 1910, 1911, 1916; ESAR 1937, Debretts 1990; Problems in Eugenics. 1912 (repr.)

25 Upper Wimpole St., London W1, 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1932, 1937
Source: ER 1932, ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Member 1947
Source: ER 1947

Oosterbeek, Holland
Eugenics Society Member 1956, 1977
Source: ER 1956, 1977 list

Stevenage, Herts
Eugenics Society Member 1954, 1957
Source: ER 1954, 1957

Eugenics Society Member 1985
Personal: MSc (Statistics) 1977; MD 1976; MB, BS 1967; Diploma in Child Health 1969; Institute of Child Health, London (Lect.,1985, then Prof. of Child Health and Growth. 1991); ex reader in Child Health; Research Fellow, Middlesex Hospital; see J.M. Tanner
Pubns:
arts. on growth disorders and treatments
Source: B&S 1986, Medical Directory 1991, Genetic Prophecy.1983
Background:
Stature, Intelligence and Jacob Creuzfeld Syndrome
In 1959 J.M. Tanner q.v. developed a treatment which injected growth hormones taken from the brains of corpses into short children in order to make them grow.
This was begun in 1960 and continued even though the work of Gadjusek, reported in the Eugenics Quarterly, suggested that the cause of !Kuru was a slow virus like that which causes Jacob Creuzfeld. And even when Gadjusek discovered that the transmission vector of the slow virus in !Kuru was handling and ingesting the brains of corpses, Tanner ignored the potential dangers of his procedure.
Similarly, sheep with scrapie should not have been used as feed since Gadjusek mentioned scrapie as another disease like !Kuru. Using ground up scrapie infested sheep as feed is what led to the outbreak of mad cow disease in England which occurred at approximately the same time as several of the children Tanner treated developed Jacob Creuzfeld (human mad cow disease) syndrome (1992).
The childrens' situation was exposed in the Telegraph in June 1992. Michael Preece, was a close associate of Tanner who became Prof. of Child Health at the Institute of Child Health after Tanner. Preece was put in charge of counselling the affected families.
In other words, both as a specialist and as a eugenicist, Tanner should have known that there was a danger of inducing Jacob Creuzfeld syndrome or some slow virus disease if he used material from brains of corpses.
It had been shown by Gadjusek that the slow virus "!kuru" was being transmitted among the cannibal tribes of New Guinea by handling brains in the food preparation process. In an article in the Eugenics Quarterly which was published before Gadjusek understood this transmission vector, Gadjusek had suggested that "!Kuru" could be a selection agent. This article mentioned scrapie, mad cow disease and Jacob Creuzfeld Syndrome as diseases which were similar to "!kuru." Therefore, Tanner should have been very wary of using human brain products, except as selection agents. But he was not.
It is a fact that both Tanner and Sir Dugald Baird q.v. believed that stature and intelligence were related. Dugald Baird q.v. aborted many children whose mothers were short. Arthur Jensen (AES) still believes that IQ and stature are related. Martin Cole q.v. also worked on the problem also. He believed that long legs in women correlate with intelligence in the woman while Jensen believes that intelligent and wealthy men marry long legged women and have intelligent, long legged children. (See AES list)
Genetic Advisory Centres- North East Thames Regional Health Authority Genetic Clinic, Institute of Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormonde St., London

Eugenics Society Member 1939
Source: ER 1939

Southend Lodge, Cheltenham 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1937
Source: ER 1937, ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Member 1986
Source: B&S 1988

MRC Psych. Clinical Research Center
Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex
Eugenics Society Fellow 1977
Personal: MB 1958; DPM (Univ. of London) 1965; DM (Oxford) 1969; FRCPsych 1979; 1991 address Milton Keynes Hospital; Cons. Psychiatrist, Aylesbury and Milton Keynes Health District; Mem., Scientific Staff, MRC Psychiatric Genetics Unit, Institute of Psychiatry
Pubns:
"Personality Differences within Families", Jl. of Biosocial Science 1969; "Genetic and Phylogenetic Basis of Mood Variation", Internat'l Jl. of Mental Health 1972
Source: 1977 list, Medical Directory 1985, 1991, Genetic Prophecy. 1983
Background: Genetic Advisory Centres 1983
- South East Thames Regional Health Authority Genetic Clinic, Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5
- Northwest Thames Regional Health Authority, Northwick Park Hospital, Watford Rd., Harrow, Middlesex

Cockleford Mill, Cowley, nr. Cheltenham 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

London
Eugenics Society Member 1965, 1977
Personal: Member, Engineering Institute of Canada; Associate Member, Institute of Civil Engineers
Source: ER 1965, 1977 list

104 Manor Way, Blackheath, London SE3, 1937
Eugenics Society Council 1931-32, Fellow 1937
Personal: Indian Civil Service; Anglican Priest 1903; Director and Consulting Secretary, Charity Organizations Society (1914-1919, 1925-1936, 1936-38)
Source: ER 1931-32, ESAR 1937, Obit ER July 1938, p. 127

Eugenics Society Member 1938
Source: ER 1938-39

68 Elm Park Rd., Chelsea, London SW3, 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Council 1920
Pubns:
"Some recent documents on the subject of infant mortality and some reflections thereon", ER 1917-18, v. 9, p. 223
Source: ER 1920

London
Eugenics Society Fellow 1949, 1957 Executive Cttee 1952-53
Personal: Messrs. Chase, Henderson and Tennant, 50-60 New Broad St., London, EC2
Source: ER 1948-49, 1952-53, 1957

Eugenics Society Member 1949
Source: ER 1948-49

Dept. of Geography, Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool
Eugenics Society Fellow 1977
Source: 1977 list
Background:
What is Geography Today?
from Edinburgh University: "Geography is the study of the physical and human forces of change affecting the Earth. The discipline therefore spans the physical, natural and social sciences ... In all cases, first year students study the major global problems of Population, Environment and Resources ... increasing specialisation in the third and fourth years includes ... options in economic, social and historical geography ..." from Edinburgh Univ.,Undergraduate Prospectus, 1992, p. 131-2 (see A. W. Halsey q.v. and also the Teeside group, John Peel etc.)

The Royal Society of Medicine
Eugenics Society Member 1955, 1957
Source: ER 1955, 1957

Eugenics Society Member 1949
Source: ER 1948-49

Millside, Hatfield Heath, Bishops Stortford 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

Little Paddock, Long Cross, nr. Chertsey 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1924, 1937 Council 1925-35
Personal: Assistant Keeper, Osteological Collections, British Museum; Fellow, Linnean Society
Pubns:
More Gleanings from Nature's Fields. 1929; "Protective Adaptations", ER 1933 34, v. 25, p. 135 (C)
Source: Articles of Association, 1926; ESAR 1937, Obit, ER April 1942, p. 27

Naylands, Balcombe Haywards Heath, Sussex
Eugenics Society Hon. Fellow 1953, 1957 V.P. 1960 Council 1966
Personal: b. 8/1/93; Gen. Sec of the Family Planning Association (FPA) from its start in 1930; leader of FPA from 1939 on; organized Clapham Conference; Chairman of FPA on the death of Lady Denman; Subscriber, Family Planning Association Ltd.; Admin. Chairman, International Planned Parenthood Federation 1961-; Officer of the Order of the British Empire; Margaret Pyke House named after her
- son, Dr. David Pyke
- Rona Smith, who is a shareholder in many FPA companies, lives at Balcombe.
Pubns: "Family Planning: an Assessment", Galton Lecture 1963
Source: ER 1953, 1957, 1966; obit by C.P. Blacker, Around the World News of Population and Family Planning 1961 February, CH
Quotes:
Family Planning Association (FPA) and Contraceptives: 1. "The British Medical Journal, the Lancet, and the Pharmaceutical Journal consult us (the FPA, ed. note) before accepting any advertisement of a contraceptive ... We were told recently of a manufacturer who was refused a license to export his goods because they were not on the FPA approved list ...
Royal Commission on Population:
2. "...since it (The Royal Commission on Population) came out we [the FPA. ed. note] have made it our business to publicize it... Crypto-eugenics as Empire: 3. "... it is incumbent on all who are concerned with problem families, juvenile delinquency and the possible dysgenic effects of a differential birth rate to combine with family planners ... Great Britain has lost the lead she once held in many international fields, but in the field of family planning she is probably the most advanced of all the big countries. Here we have no laws against birth control and we have only a small proportion of the population (between six and seven percent) pledged to opposition on religious grounds." (above three quotes from "Family Planning: the past and future" by Margaret Pyke. ER 1953, Vol. 44, pp. 197-201)
Was the Family Planning Association unbiased?: The FPA determined who got ads into the British Medical Journal and who got licenses for contraceptives in the UK. But how unbiased was it? It was founded and run by the Eugenic Society. Family Planning Sales Ltd. covenanted most of its profits from the sale of contraceptives to the FPA. In addition,the chairman of the FPA and two other members of the FPA Executive Committee were entitled to a pension from the profits of contraceptive sales by Family Planning Sales. (see Articles of Association)

Eugenics Society Fellow 1944
Source: ER 1944

Eugenics Society Member 1937
Source: ER 1937

Eugenics Society Member 1954
Source: ER 1954

Eugenics Society Member 1931
Source: ER 1931