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who became a strong influence on his views. In both 1921 and 1925 he served as President of the Neo-Malthusian International Conference (London, 1921: New York, 1925). These views led to his involvement in Britain's National Birth Control Association in 1930. In 1907, greatly influenced by his
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mother's views he founded the Men's League for Women's Suffrage. He also sat on the Men's Committee for Justice for Women. In 1913 he was the first witness to give evidence to the National Birth-Rate Commission.
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CB OBE (1874–1961) was an English electrical engineer, eugenicist, and social reformer. He is remembered for opening the second birth control clinic in Britain in 1921 and co-founding the
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on the western Scottish coast. From 1921 to 1929 he acted as Superintendent to the facility, and from 1929 to 1934 was Director of the admiralty Experimental Station in Scotland.
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on the Essex coast. Here he developed the "leader cable" system: a ship guidance system where ships attached to an underwater cable. Following the end of the
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on 8 July 1874 while his mother was studying Medicine there. His uncle was John James Drysdale (1816–1890) founder of the Liverpool Homeopathic Hospital.
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commemorates Britain's second birth control clinic, which Drysdale managed. It stands on 153 East Street, Walworth,
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See He succeeded his father as editor of The Malthusian from 1907. He also wrote the following books and papers:
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Technical College to study engineering. He completed his studies at the Central Technical College in
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Following his wife's death he went to live with his nephew at Ashley, Filsham Drive, Pebsham near
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in South London. They had one daughter who died in 1914 aged 13. They adopted a son.
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and died there on 7 February 1961. He is buried with his wife beside his parents in
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From 1896 to 1910 he was Head of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics at the
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Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002
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in 1904. Following the death of his father in 1907 he became Secretary of the
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and served as its President 1912 until 1952 (its demise). In 1914 he met
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In 1898 he married Bessie Ingman Edwards (1871–1950) a teacher at
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English electrical engineer, eugenicist, and social reformer (1874–1961)
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Charles Vickery Drysdale
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In January 1918 he joined the Admiralty Experimental Station at
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Institute. From 1916 to 1918 he worked at H Tinsley & Co.
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Banishing the Beast: Feminism Sex and Morality, Lucy Bland
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The Malthusian Doctrine and Criterion of Overpopulation
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As an engineer he is remembered as the inventor of the
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The Small Family System: Is it Injurious or Immoral
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Sussex
FRSE
Family Planning Association
Phase-shifting transformer
Institute of Physics
Malthusian
Neo-Malthusian
Malthusian League

Brookwood Cemetery
Charles Robert Drysdale
Alice Vickery
Paris
Finsbury
South Kensington
Physical Society
Institute of Physics
Optical Society
Malthusian League
Margaret Sanger
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Charles Glover Barkla
James Robert Milne
Thomas Hudson Beare
Magnus Maclean
Ernest George Coker
Royal Institution
Duddell Medalist
Bexhill-on-Sea

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