1829 - 1907 (78 years)
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| Name |
Charles Robert Drysdale |
| Birth |
1829 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
1907 |
| Burial |
Brookwood, Surrey, England  |
| Person ID |
I143501 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Family |
Alice Vickery, b. 1844, Devon, England d. 12 Jan 1929 (Age 85 years) |
| Notes |
- Wikipedia describes them as life-partners
Vickery began her medical career at the Ladies' Medical College in 1869. There she met the lecturer Charles Robert Drysdale and started a relationship with him. They never married, as they both agreed with his brother George (also a neo-Malthusian physician) that marriage was "legal prostitution".
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| Children |
| | 1. Dr. Charles Vickery Drysdale, FRSE CB OBE, b. 8 Jul 1874, Paris, France d. 7 Feb 1961, Ashley, Filsham Drive, Pebsham, Sussex, England (Age 86 years) |
| | 2. George Vickery Drysdale, b. 1881 d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Family ID |
F56030 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
28 Jul 2019 |
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| Notes |
- He was a physician with homeopathic sympathies who worked at the Farrington Dispensary and who was the Senior Physician at the Metropolitan Free Hospital in London and a Founder and President of the Malthusian League, the first organization in England dedicated to advocating the practice of birth control.
Charles Robert Drysdale was the editor of The Malthusian and a prodigious author, alongside his wife Alice Vickery (1849-1929)
Charles Robert Drysdale was a friend of Charles Darwin..
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