Henry Stephens Salt
(1851-1939)
British activist
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Henry Shakespear Stephens Salt (20 September 1851 – 19 April 1939) was an English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions, and the treatment of animals. He was a noted ethical vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, socialist, and pacifist, and was well known as a literary critic, biographer, classical scholar and naturalist. It was Salt who first introduced Mohandas Gandhi to the influential works of Henry David Thoreau, and influenced Gandhi's study of vegetarianism.
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20 September 1851 India
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19 April 1939 (aged 87) Brighton, England
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| Zodiac | Virgo |
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