1. Hubert Bland was known for being an infamous libertine, a journalist, an early English socialist, and one of the founders of the Fabian Society.
16 Facts About Hubert Bland
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Hubert Bland was baptised on 14 March 1855 at St Mary Magdalene, Woolwich.
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Hubert Bland wanted to attend the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and become an army officer, but there was not enough money after his father's death, so he went to work as a bank clerk.
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Hubert Bland continued to spend half of each week with his widowed mother and her paid companion, Maggie Doran, who had a son by him, though Nesbit did not realize this until later that summer when Hubert Bland fell ill with smallpox.
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Hubert Bland met Alice Hoatson, a friend of Nesbit, after getting her pregnant in 1886: she became their housekeeper and his mistress for the rest of his life.
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On 4 January 1884, Hubert Bland chaired the first meeting and was elected to be the Society's honorary treasurer, a position he held until his sight failed in 1911.
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Hubert Bland served as co-editor of the Fabian News, a monthly journal.
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George Bernard Shaw described how Hubert Bland intimidated other Fabian Society members, describing him as.
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Hubert Bland was pugnacious, powerful, a skilled pugilist, and had a shrill, thin voice reportedly like the scream of an eagle.
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Hubert Bland was an atypical Fabian, since he combined socialism with strongly conservative opinions that reflected his social background and his military sympathies.
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Hubert Bland was the Fabian delegate at the Labour Party conferences in 1908 and 1910.
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Hubert Bland served for a while on the Board of Governors of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Hubert Bland had to give up lecturing and resign as treasurer of the Fabian Society.
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Hubert Bland was dictating to her at Well Hall 14 April 1914, when he suddenly felt giddy, lowered himself to the floor, and died of a heart attack in her arms.
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Hubert Bland is one of the minor enigmas of literary history in that everything reported of him makes him sound repellent, yet he was admired, even adored, by many intelligent men and women.
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Hubert Bland allowed his wife to support him with her pen for some years, but was always opposed to feminism.