Elsie Beatrice Shrigley (née Salling; 30 October 1899 – 13 May 1978), also known as Sally Shrigley, was an English vegan activist and a co-founder, along with Donald Watson, of The Vegan Society in 1944. She is credited, by some, as coining the word "vegan" with Watson.[1][2]
Elsie Beatrice Shrigley | |
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| Born | Elsie Beatrice Salling 30 October 1899 North London, England |
| Died | 13 May 1978 (aged 78) Tonbridge, Kent, England |
| Occupation | Veganism activist |
| Known for | Co-founding The Vegan Society |
Biography
editShrigley was born in North London, in 1899, to a Swedish mother and Danish father.[3] She married Walter Shrigley, a dentist, in 1939.[4] Shrigley became a vegetarian in 1934 and stopped eating dairy from 1944.[3] In August of the same year, Shrigley along with Donald Watson and others called for "a non-dairy section of the Vegetarian Society"; the rejection of this proposal from the society[5] led to the formation of the vegan movement and the founding of The Vegan Society.[6]
Shrigley was an honorary secretary of the Croydon Vegetarian Society from 1940 to 1958 and was later a secretary for the Surrey Vegetarian Society.[7] She was also a temporary secretary for the London Vegetarian Society for three months. She was President of The Vegan Society in the early 1960s, then taking various other positions in the society; she served on its committee until her death.[4]
She died in Tonbridge, Kent in 1978.[4]
References
edit- ^ Fox, Sarah W. (2017-04-30). "Elsie Shrigley: The Woman Behind the Word Veganism". Collectively Free. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
- ^ Greenwood, Margaret Puskar-Pasewicz (2010). Cultural Encyclopedia of Vegetarianism. Santa Barbara, California. p. 239. ISBN 978-0-313-37557-6. OCLC 693771866.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b Davis, John (September 2016). "The Origins of the Vegans: 1944-46" (PDF). The Vegetarian Society UK. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-11-01. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
- ^ a b c "In search of Sally - The Lesser Known Founder of The Vegan Society with Donald Watson". VeggieVision.TV. 2016-04-27. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
- ^ "The seeds of veganism". Financial Times. 17 January 2020. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
- ^ "The Women Pioneers of the Movement: Rarely Out of the Shadows". VegfestUK. 2019-09-01. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
- ^ Arioch, David (2018-10-06). "Elsie Shrigley, uma pioneira do movimento vegano" [Elsie Shrigley, a pioneer of the vegan movement]. Vegazeta (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-02-06.