Henry Shakespear Stephens Salt (1851 - 1939)

Born 20 Sep 1851 in Naini Tāl, Uttar Pradesh, India

Ancestors

Husband of Catherine Leigh (Joynes) Salt — married 22 Dec 1879 in Church of St John Evangelist, Eton, UK.

Died 19 Apr 1939 at age 87 in Brighton, Sussex, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

This profile is part of the Salt Name Study.

Henry was born in 1851. He was the son of Thomas Henry Salt and Ellen Matilda Allnatt. He was an English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions, and the treatment of animals. He was a noted ethical vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, socialist, and pacifist, and was well known as a literary critic, biographer, classical scholar and naturalist. It was Salt who first introduced Mohandas Gandhi to the influential works of Henry David Thoreau, and influenced Gandhi's study of vegetarianism.

Salt is credited with being the first writer to argue explicitly in favour of animal rights, in his Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1894), rather than focusing on improvements to animal welfare. He wrote: "If we are ever going to do justice to the lower races, we must get rid of the antiquated notion of a 'great gulf' fixed between them and mankind, and must recognize the common bond of humanity that unites all living beings in one universal brotherhood." He passed away in 1939.

Sources

• Wikipedia contributors, 'Henry Stephens Salt', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2 November 2017, 14:06 UTC, <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_Stephens_Salt&oldid=808374671> [accessed 11 December 2017]

• England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007

Name: Henry S S Salt

Death Age: 87

Birth Date: abt 1852

Registration Date: 1939

Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun

Registration District: Brighton

Inferred County: Sussex

Volume: 2b

Page: 334