Sidney H. Beard
Sidney Hartnoll Beard | |
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| Born | 1862 London, England |
| Died | October 1938 (aged 75–76) Putney, England |
| Occupation(s) | Vegetarianism activist, writer |
Sidney Hartnoll Beard (1862 – 20 October 1938) was an English fruitarian, vegetarian activist and writer. He was President of the Order of the Golden Age.
Biography
Beard was born in London. He became a vegetarian in 1894.[1] He re-established the Order of the Golden Age in 1895.[2][3] The Order's headquarters were located at Beard's residence in Ilfracombe.[1] In 1904, the Order's new headquarters were located at Barcombe Hall in Paignton.[1][3]
Beard was the editor of the Herald of the Golden Age (1896-1918), the official journal for the Order of the Golden Age.[2][4] The aim of the journal was to promote the "fruitarian system of living, and to teach its advantages."[4] The journal promoted vegetarianism from a Christian perspective. Beard believed that a vegetarian diet should be pursued as a moral duty.[5] Charles W. Forward described Beard as having "militant enthusiasm, intense earnestness and unswerving faith".[6]
He was married to Annie Patterson.[2] Beard and his wife were spiritualists.[1] He campaigned for the humane treatment of animals as part of his Christian spiritual belief system.[7]
Beard authored A Comprehensive Guide-Book to Natural, Hygienic and Humane Diet, in 1902. The book was criticized by health writer Carl Malmberg for making extremist claims.[8] Beard died in Putney on 20 October 1938.[1]
Selected publications
- A Simple Guide to a Natural and Humane Diet (1898)
- Is Flesh-Eating Morally Defensible? (1898)
- A Comprehensive Guide-Book to Natural, Hygienic and Humane Diet (1902)
- Our Real Relationship to God: The Lost Ideal of Christianity, by a Disciple of the Christ (1922)
References
- ^ a b c d e "Sidney H. Beard (1862-1938)". Order of the Golden Age. Retrieved July 22, 2019.
- ^ a b c Anonymous. (1978). Who Was Who Among English and European Authors, 1931-1949. Volume 1. Gale Research Company. p. 114. ISBN 0-8103-0400-7
- ^ a b Gregory, James. (2007). Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Tauris Academic Studies. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-84511-379-7
- ^ a b Kuhn, Philip. (2017). Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1893–1913: Histories and Historiography. Lexington Books. pp. 73-74. ISBN 978-1498505222
- ^ Stark, James F. (2018). Replace them by Salads and Vegetables: Dietary Innovation, Youthfulness, and Authority, 1900–1939. Global Food History 4 (2): 130-151.
- ^ Forward, Charles W. (1898). Fifty Years of Food Reform: A History of the Vegetarian Movement in England. London: The Ideal Publishing Union. p. 169
- ^ Bates, A. W. H. (2017). Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain: A Social History. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 82. ISBN 978-1-137-55696-7
- ^ Malmberg, Carl. (1935). Diet and Die. Hillman-Curl, Inc. p. 48