1. Sidney George Trist MJI was an English activist, journalist, and editor.
19 Facts About Sidney Trist
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Sidney Trist advocated for animal welfare and vegetarianism while opposing vivisection and vaccination.
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Sidney Trist edited several animal welfare publications, including the Animal World and the Animals' Guardian.
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Sidney Trist's works, including his best-known work The Under Dog, highlighted cruelty to animals, with their illustrations emphasising the educational power of visuals.
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Sidney Trist served as secretary of the London Anti-Vivisection Society and a committee member of Battersea Dogs' Home, ensuring no dogs were sold to vivisectors.
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Sidney George Trist was born in Newton Abbot, Devon, in the third quarter of 1865.
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Sidney Trist was the editor of the Animal World and Animals' Friend.
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Sidney Trist was the secretary of the London Anti-Vivisection Society, and the editor of its publication, the Animals' Guardian.
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Sidney Trist was later elected to serve on the Battersea Dogs' Home committee, where he "ensured that its policy of never selling any dog to a vivisector was maintained".
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In 1894, Sidney Trist published his first pamphlet, A Birds-Eye View of a Great Question, which advocated against vivisection.
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Sidney Trist authored works on anti-vivisection, including The Danger to Hospital Patients in the Practice of Vivisection and A Cloud of Witnesses.
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Sidney Trist widely circulated the letter in the press and arranged for many copies to be printed as a pamphlet by the London Anti-Vivisection Society.
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In 1901, Sidney Trist published his first book, Birds and Beasts Within Our Gates: A Book for Animal Lovers.
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Sidney Trist provided the preface to Albert Leffingwell's 1908 book, The Vivisection Controversy.
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Sidney Trist, condemned their involvement in a 5,000 word open letter, invoking imagery of Christ in a laboratory to highlight the moral contradiction.
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Sidney Trist warned that supporting vivisection betrayed Christian principles of compassion and risked alienating the Church from the public.
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In 1913, Sidney Trist published The Under Dog, an illustrated collection of essays that explored the injustices animals endure as a result of human actions.
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Sidney Trist married Florence Mogg at All Saints Church, Wandsworth, on 28 October 1893.
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Sidney Trist died on 2 December 1918, at the age of 53, in Wandsworth, London.