1. Caleb Williams Saleeby FRSE was an English physician, writer, and journalist known for his support of eugenics.
16 Facts About Caleb Saleeby
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Caleb Saleeby's father, Elias G Saleeby, was a founder and head of schools in Mount Lebanon.
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Caleb Saleeby's father died whilst he was young and his mother moved to 3 Malta Terrace in Stockbridge, Edinburgh.
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Caleb Saleeby was educated by his mother and at the Royal High School in Edinburgh.
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Caleb Saleeby was a resident at the Maternity Hospital and the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and briefly at the York City Dispensary.
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Caleb Saleeby's proposers were Sir Alexander Russell Simpson, Sir Thomas Clouston, Sir William Turner and Daniel John Cunningham.
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Caleb Saleeby became a prolific freelance writer and journalist, with strong views on many subjects.
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Caleb Saleeby became known in particular as an advocate of eugenics: in 1907 he was influential in launching the Eugenics Education Society, and in 1909 he published Parenthood and Race Culture.
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Caleb Saleeby predicted the use of atomic power, "perhaps not for hundreds of years".
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Caleb Saleeby favoured the education of women, but primarily so they should become better mothers.
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Caleb Saleeby campaigned for clean air and the benefits of sunlight, founding The Sunlight League in 1924.
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Caleb Saleeby founded a nudist club in Britain in the 1920s exhorting the nudist lifestyle in his book Sunlight and Health.
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Caleb Saleeby died on 9 December 1940 from heart failure at Apple Tree, Aldbury, near Tring.
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Caleb Saleeby was a proponent of the trophoblastic theory of cancer first proposed by embryologist John Beard.
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Caleb Saleeby authored the book The Conquest of Cancer, in 1908.
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Caleb Saleeby married Monica Meynell, daughter of Alice Meynell and Wilfrid Meynell, in June 1903.