James Marchant

Rev Sir James Marchant FRSE FLS FRAS KBE LLD (1867-1956) was a British eugenicist, social reformer and author. He was leader of the National Vigilance Association, concerned with social morality, and also the Director of the National Council of Public Morals. He epitomises the view of the priggish Victorian attitude to sex and morality.[1]

Life

He was born in London on 18 December 1867.

In 1917 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Thomas Clouston, Sir Alexander Russell Simpson, John Arthur Thomson and John William Ballantyne. He was created a Knight of the Order of the British Empire by King George V for his work on birth-rate and contraception in 1921, a rare accolade for a clergyman.[2]

He died in Sherborne on 20 May 1956.

Family

In 1895 he married Eleanor Jane Gordon.

Publications

  • Theories of the Resurrection of Christ (1896)
  • Theories of the Person of Christ (1903)
  • Social Hygienics: A New Crusade (1909)
  • Aids to Purity (1909)
  • A Plea for Regeneration (1912)
  • The Cleansing of a City (1917)
  • The Master Problem (1917)
  • The Coming Renaissance (1923)
  • British Preachers (1927)
  • The Coming of Age of Christianity (1951)
  • The Censorship of Low Orade Literature
  • The Reunion of Christendom
  • The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace

References

  1. ↑ Edwardian Turn of Mind, Samuel Hynes
  2. ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.


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