Peace Society

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Peace Society, originally known as the Society for the Promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace, was a society founded on 14 June 1816 for the promotion of permanent and universal peace; it advocated a gradual, proportionate, and simultaneous disarmament of all nations and the principle of arbitration.

In 1930 it merged with the International Christian Peace Fellowship and was renamed the International Peace Society. At some time thereafter it became defunct.

Other groups with similar names

• German Peace Society
• American Peace Society
• New York Peace Society

[edit] Members

• William Allen- founding member
• John Bright
• Richard Cobden
• W. Evans Darby - Secretary from 1885-1915
• Herbert Dunnico - Secretary from 1915-?
• Joseph Pease - president (1860-1872)
• Evan Rees (?-1821) - Secretary
• Henry Richard - Secretary from 1848-1885
• Joseph Sturge - founded the Birmingham auxiliary

[edit] External links

• International Peace Society Records, 1817-1948. Has a history.
• The International Peace Movement

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.