Henry Stephens Salt

Henry Stephens Salt ( born September 20, in 1851; † April 19, 1939 ) was a British reformer. He was co-founder of the Humanitarian League, the various liberation movements of Edwardian England a common humanitarian principle imputed and this demanded. He and the other founders John Galsworthy, Colonel WL Blenkinsop Coulson and Edward Carpenter stood against flogging and the death penalty, hunting as a sport, as well as animal experiments (then vivisection ). They advocated for a wide vegetarianism. Notable supporters include Keir Hardie, Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, Bertram Lloyd and Christabel Pankhurst. The league was dissolved in 1920.

Salt was born the son of a colonel in India. As a child his family moved to England, where he was taught at Eton College. In 1875 he received his PhD in Cambridge. Salt then taught at Eton classical. He married Catherine (Kate ) Joynes, with which he retired in 1884 to act politically and journalistically.

Works (selection)

• Literary Sketches ( 1888)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Monograph (1888 )
• Examination of Hogg's "Life of Shelley " (1889 )
• The Life of Henry David Thoreau (1890, London: Walter Scott, 1896), reprint by Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 1-4179-7028-6
• Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1892 ). Reprinted with foreword by Peter Singer ( Clarks Summit, PA: Society for Animal Rights, 1980). ISBN 0-9602632-0-9
• Songs of freedom ()
• Richard Jefferies: A Study (1894 )
• Life of James Thomson ( " B. V. " ) ( 1898)
• De Quincey (1904 )
• The Faith of Richard Jefferies (1906 )
• The logic of vegetarianism; essays and dialogues (1906 )
• Seventy years among savages ( 1921)