26 Facts About George Bedborough

George Bedborough Higgs was an English bookseller, journalist, writer, and editor.

George Bedborough Higgs was born in St Giles, London, on 10 January 1868.

George Bedborough's father, Edward Squance Higgs, was a retired Church of England preacher and his mother was a poet.

George Bedborough was educated at Dulwich College and began work at the age of 16, founding the Workhouse Aid Society with W T Stead.

In 1887, Bedborough was present at Bloody Sunday, in Trafalgar Square.

George Bedborough later wrote for a number of publications including the Sunday Chronicle, Shafts, University Magazine, the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, and South London Mail.

From 1891 to 1892, George Bedborough was a member of the National Society of Lanternists.

George Bedborough occasionally worked as a lantern operator and gave lectures.

George Bedborough's marriage was for the sake of his family and he had an open relationship with his wife.

George Bedborough was indicated for his articles published in The Adult.

George Bedborough had been under surveillance because of the suspected anarchist connections of the League; George Bedborough, himself, was not an anarchist, but he was described as the London representative of the American anarchist periodical Lucifer the Lightbearer.

Just before being prosecuted, George Bedborough collaborated with the police and pled guilty on three counts.

George Bedborough became a vegetarian in 1902 after visiting Moses Harman's home.

George Bedborough described the pervasive smell of the slaughterhouses as pervading the whole city of Chicago.

Harman suggested they tour the meat-packing houses to test whether George Bedborough would continue eating meat.

In 1906, George Bedborough became the editor of The Children's Realm, a children's magazine published by the Vegetarian Federal Union and London Vegetarian Society.

George Bedborough served as editor for most of the magazine's existence, until its closure in 1914.

George Bedborough wrote extensively for the magazine, aiming to instill empathy and kindness in young readers, drawing parallels between the suffering of animals and oppressed humans.

In 1914, George Bedborough published Stories from the Children's Realm, a children's story book with animal rights, anti-vivisection and vegetarian themes.

George Bedborough was a contributor to Moses Harman's American Journal of Eugenics, published between 1907 and 1910.

George Bedborough was an active member of the discussion circles of the feminist journal The Freewoman, which was published between 1911 and 1912.

George Bedborough published three books of aphorisms, Narcotics and a Few Stimulants, Vacant Chaff Well Meant for Grain and Subtilty to the Simple and one book of Epigrams, Vulgar Fractions.

George Bedborough published The Atheist in 1919, a poem which advocated for atheism and was critical of the killing of animals for human consumption.

George Bedborough's last work Prayer: An Indictment, published in 1938, was a secular criticism of prayer.

George Bedborough returned to the UK in 1931 on the RMS Aquitania.

George Bedborough died there on 7 August 1940, at the age of 72.