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Johanna Mary [Hanna] Sheehy-Skeffington, (1877-1946)
Francis Sheehy-Skeffington (1878–1916)
Owen Lancelot Sheehy-Skeffington (1909-1970)
The Sheehy-Skeffingtons – the feminist and Irish nationalist Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, her husband, the pacifist, suffragist and writer, Francis, and their son, Owen, a founder member of the Humanist Association or Ireland – were notable Irish atheists.
Hanna and Francis
Born into the Roman Catholic tradition and educated by [...]
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(11 August 1857 – 15 February 1944)
Stanton George Coit co-founded the Union of Ethical Societies, which was the forerunner of the present British Humanist Association.
Coit was born in Columbus, Ohio. He studied at Amherst College, Massachusetts, 1879, and became an aide of Felix Adler who had founded the Society for Ethical Culture in New York [...]
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(24 December, 1838 – 23 September, 1923)
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn OM, PC was was Liberal Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne 1883 – 1895 and later Montrose Burghs.
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(3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967)
Clement Richard Attlee was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.
In 2004, he was voted the greatest British Prime Minister of the 20th century in a [...]
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(19 September 1778 – 17 May 1868)
Henry Brougham was a radical thinker and reformer who nevertheless was
able to work within the establishment.
A young Scottish lawyer
The son of Henry and Eleanora Brougham, landowners in Westmorland,
he was born in Edinburgh, entered Edinburgh University at the age of
14, and while still a student presented a paper on light, to [...]
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(14 November 1856 – 5 January 1933)
John Mackinnon Robertson was a journalist, secularist and Member of Parliament.
Born on the Isle of Arran. He learnt journalism in Edinburgh but soon settled in London, and worked in the Secularist Movement, editing the National Reformer after the death of Charles Bradlaugh.
He was MP for Tyneside from 1906 to [...]
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(1855 – 1938)
Frederick James (F.J.) Gould was an educationalist, councillor, secularist and humanist.
Born in Brighton but brought up in London, Gould became a chorister at Windsor, and a religious teacher, but left this comfortable position to teach in the East End of London where he tried to reform religious teaching.
He became involved with Charles Watts in the Rationalist [...]
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(28 October 1907-22 June 1987)
John Harold Hewitt was the most significant Ulster poet to emerge before the Sixties generation of Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Michael Longley. Hehad an active political life and was an atheist.
His life and work are celebrated in two prominent ways – the annual John Hewitt International Summer School – [...]
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(26 September 1833 – 30 January 1891)
Charles Bradlaugh was an atheist pro-feminist social reformer, Member of Parliament and founder of the National Secular Society.
Bradlaugh left home at the age of 16 due to religious differences with his family and was assisted by Elizabeth Sharples Carlile, widow of Richard Carlile the publisher of Tom Paine’s [...]
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