THE "STRENGTH OF BRITAIN" MEMORIAL
IT IS HOPED, with the American Memorial for National Prohibition, to parallel similar Memorials in Russia, Great Britain, and elsewhere. The British memorial for National Prohibition During the War and the Six Months of Demobilization has received exceptionally brilliant signature. Among those giving their adhesion are representatives of the Order of Merit, the Privy Council, Parliament, the Army and Navy, the Universities, the Royal Society, great shipping and manufacturing concern, and personalities in science, art, letters, medicine, engineering, diplomacy, and the legal profession. From these hundreds of important names we select the following as typical: [page 2]
Lieut. Gen. Sir R. Baden-Powell
Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Gerard Noel
Mr. Thomas Hardy, the novelist
Sir William Crookes, President of the Royal Society
Sir Horace Plunkett, Privy Councillor
Sir Ronald Ross, K.C.B., the discoverer of the cause of malaria
Sir Hiram Maxim, of Vickers, Maxim and Co. Limited
Sir Alfred Booth, Chairman of the Cunard Steamship Co.
Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge
Admiral Sir Edmund Freemantle
Sir Norman Lockyer, the astronomer
Sir E. Ray Lankester, the zoologist
Prof. Patrick Geddes, the botanist
Dr. Lyttelton, the headmaster of Eton, and the Headmasters of Rugby and Marlborough
Robert Bridges, the Poet Laureate
Rt. Hon. Sir Ernest Satow, former Minister to China
Major Gen. Sir G. Scott Moncrieff
Mr. Hall Caine, the novelist
Mr. Frederick Harrison, D.C.L.
Mr. Austin Dobson, the poet
Sir Wm. Beardmore, shipbuilder
Sir Wm. Osler, Prof. of Medicine, Oxford
Sir John Brunner, Bart., of Brunner, Mond and Co., chemical manufacturers [page 2]
Sir H. H. Johnston, K.C.B., African explorer
Admiral Sir Francis Powell
Admiral Sir Henry Stephenson
General Sir Reginald Hart
Mr. H. G. Wells, the novelist
Sir Edward Schaefer, F.R.S., physiologist, Cambridge University
W. M. Flinders Petrie, F.R.S., Egyptologist
J. Holland Rose, Reader in Modern History, Cambridge
Mr. J. St. Loe Strachey, Editor of the Spectator
Sir R. Godlee, President of the Royal College of Surgeons
Prof. Noel Paton, physiologist, Glasgow University
J. P. Mahaffey, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
Sir Martin Conway, South American explorer
Major Gen. Sir Ivor Herbert, Bart.
Mr. John Masefield, the poet
Sir Ernest Rutherford, F.R.S., chemist
Spenser Wilkinson, Professor of Military History, Oxford
Dr. Arthur Keith, Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons
Sir Henry Lewis, Vice-Chancellor of University College, North Wales
Mr. John Gatesworthy [page 4]
Dr. Walter Leaf, banker, Vice-President London Chamber of Commerce
Arthur R. Cushny, F.R.S., Professor of Medicine, London
Dr. Michael Sadler, C.B., Educationalist
Sir Patrick Manson, F.R.S.
Sir George Frampton, the artist
Seymour Lucas, R.A., the artist
Mr. William Archer, dramatic critic
Rt. Hon. Sir John Kennaway, Privy Councillor
Admiral James Startin
Dr. T. F. Roberts, Principal of University College, Wales
Dr. James Seth, Prof. of Philosophy, Glasgow University
Dr. Murdoch Cameron, Prof. of Midwifery, Glasgow University
J. A. Fleming, F.R.S., Professor of Electrical Engineering, London University
Surgeon General Evatt, C.B.
Major General Sir. A. B. Tulloch
Lord Kinnaird
Viscount Mountmorres
J. Estlin Carpenter, Principal Manchester College, Oxford University
C. A. Carus-Wilson, Prof. of Electrical Engineering
C. B. Upton, Prof. of Philosophy, Oxford University
Dr. J. A. McWilliams, F.R.S., Prof. of Physiology, Aberdeen University
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