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- Henry Shakespear Stephens Salt (/ sɔːlt, sɒlt /; 20 September 1851 – 19 April 1939) was a British writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions, and the treatment of animals.
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Henry Salt was born on 20 September 1851 in Nynee Tal, India, the son of Colonel Thomas Henry Salt of the Royal Bengal Artillery. He was christened Henry Shakespear Stephens Salt and shortly after his birth Salt’s mother, Ellen Matilda Salt , returned to England with Henry.
Henry Shakespear Stephens Salt (/ s ɔː l t, s ɒ l t /; 20 September 1851 – 19 April 1939) was a British writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions, and the treatment of animals.
Henry S. Salt was a classical scholar, animal rights campaigner, and founder of The Humanitarian League. Mahatma Gandhi credited Salt with showing him why ‘it was right to be vegetarian’, and Salt counted among his close friends George Bernard Shaw, Edward Carpenter, and James Ramsay MacDonald.
Henry Shakespear Stephens Salt (1851-1939) was an influential English writer and activist who helped pioneer the modern animal rights movement. Though less well-known today, Salt played a pivotal role in advocating for ethical treatment of animals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
In 1891 Henry Salt founded the Humanitarian League to combat “all the inhumanities”—those especially concerning humanity like the death penalty, flogging, and the exploitation of backward races; and those inflicted on the “other animals” likes vivisection, vaccination, blood-sports, plumage, the circus performances and the cruelties ...
He adopted a simple lifestyle, wore sandals (made by Edward Carpenter), became a vegetarian, socialist and pacifist, and campaigned for humane causes and reforms. In 1891 he founded the Humanitarian League to act as a platform for his various efforts.
Henry Shakespear Stephens Salt (Sept. 20, 1851- April 19, 1939) Among the descriptive titles bestowed upon Henry S. Salt are: author, editor, essayist, humanitarian and social reformer, socialist, amateur botanist, pacifist, literary critic, biographer, classical scholar, and naturalist.
