Friday, 15 November 2013
318 Samuel Gurney
Constituency : Penryn and Falmouth 1857-68
Samuel was a banker. He was also the first chairman of the London and Provincial District Telegraph Company. He was nephew to the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry and a Quaker.
Samuel was a leading anti-slavery campaigner ( for 18 years President of the Anti-Slavery Society ) and a member of the (pre-Royal) Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.In 1859 he became first chair of the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association promoting the cause of clean drinking water for the public to encourage temperance as tea and coffee were too expensive. Samuel provided much of the Association's funding. He held the position until his death.
He died in 1882 after a long illness aged 65.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment