Charles Robert Drysdale
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Charles Robert Drysdale was an English engineer, physician, public health scientist, and supporter of birth control. He was the first President of the Malthusian League and he published books on a var
Drysdale's grave in Brookwood Cemetery
Annie Besant
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Annie Besant was an English socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights and activist, educationist, involved in women's rights, Home Rule, and Indian nationalism. She gave support to both Irish
Charles Robert Drysdale
…at which he spoke on subjects such as over-population and public health. Drysdale and Vickery were witnesses for the defence of Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant during their 1877 trial concerning the publication of the Knowlton pamphlet Fruits of Philosophy (which advocated birth control). Drysdale died on 2…
Annie Besant as a young woman
St. Margaret's church in Sibsey, Lincolnshire, where Frank Besant was vicar from 1872 to 1917
Annie Besant's house, 39 Colby Road, Upper Norwood, now bearing a blue plaque
Studio portrait of Besant, c. 1910