President of the Eugenics Education Society

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The President of the Eugenics Education Society was the leading figure overseeing and promoting the organization’s advocacy of eugenic ideas in early 20th-century Britain.


Statements (31)
Predicate Object
instanceOf leadership position
organizational office
position of authority
appliesTo Eugenics Education Society
appointedBy Eugenics Education Society
associatedWith British eugenics movement
Eugenics Education Society
basedOn eugenic ideology
country United Kingdom
endTime 1920s
ethicalAssessment now widely regarded as promoting harmful and pseudoscientific ideas
fieldOfWork eugenics
public education
social policy
hasEffect promotion of discriminatory social policies
shaping public discourse on heredity and population
hasRole chairing meetings
influencing public debate on eugenics
oversight of society activities
promotion of eugenic ideas
public representation of the society
strategic leadership
inception 1907
location London
notableFor influencing British eugenics movement
leading organized eugenics advocacy in Britain
operatedIn early 20th-century Britain
partOf Eugenics Education Society
startTime 1907
temporalCoverage early 20th century
usedBy members of the Eugenics Education Society

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Julian Huxley ("President of the Eugenics Society")
Leonard Darwin
positionHeld

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