Henry Stephens Salt
English writer and social reformer (1851–1939) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Henry Shakespear Stephens Salt (/sɔːlt, sɒlt/; 20 September 1851 – 19 April 1939) was an English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions, and the treatment of animals. He was a noted ethical vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, socialist, and pacifist, and was well known as a literary critic, biographer, classical scholar and naturalist. It was Salt who first introduced Mohandas Gandhi to the influential works of Henry David Thoreau, and influenced Gandhi's study of vegetarianism.[1][2] Salt is considered, by some, to be the "father of animal rights",[3] having been one of the first writers to argue explicitly in favour of animal rights, rather than just improvements to animal welfare, in his Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1892).
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Born | Henry Shakespear Stephens Salt (1851-09-20)20 September 1851 |
Died | 19 April 1939(1939-04-19) (aged 87) Brighton, England |
Nationality | British |
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Notable work | Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1892) |
Spouses | Catherine (Kate) Leigh Joynes
(m. 1879; died 1919)Catherine Mandeville
(m. 1927) |
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