1824 - 1844 (19 years)
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| Name |
George Robert Drysdale |
| Birth |
27 Dec 1824 |
8 Royal Circus, Edinburgh  |
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| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
21 Aug 1844 |
Vienna (The Danube) |
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| Person ID |
I143312 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
28 Jul 2019 |
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| Notes |
- Drysdale, George (1824– 1904), freethinker and advocate of contraception, was born at 8 Royal Circus, Edinburgh, on 27 December 1824, the fourth son of the city treasurer and tory leader on Edinburgh council, Sir William Drysdale (1781– 1843), who was concerned with sanitary reform... The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- (Research):This is said to be George:
A doctor, and Founder of the Malthusian League.
In the 'The Elements of Social Science' originally called 'Physical, Sexual and Natural Religion', George Drysdale describes himself as 'a student of medicine', and the book is dedicated to 'the poor and suffering'. The book was controversial in its day, discussing in a frank and unsensational manner the various methods of contraception known to British and European doctors, such that the poor could be taught how to limit their families.
The book hovered just the other side of complete respectability. The British Library's copies of the editions in 1872, 1875, 1886 are 'destroyed'. The British Library copy of 1867 is listed as 'missing'.
But he appears to have died before his 20th birthday.
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