Peace Society

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The Peace Society, International Peace Society or London 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. [1] The Society in London established Auxiliary Societies in various cities and towns in the United Kingdom: for instance at Doncaster and Leeds.[2] The Society's failure to condemn the outbreak of World War I in 1914 resulted in internal divisions and led to the resignation of its leader, William Evans Derby. His successor, Revd. Herbert Dunnico, led the society's unsuccessful campaign for peace negotiations.[1]

In 1930 it merged with the International Christian Peace Fellowship and was renamed the International Peace Society. At some time thereafter it became defunct. It published a monthly journal, The Herald of Peace, founded in 1819.[3][4]

Presidents

Secretaries

  • Evan Rees (?–1821) - Secretary[6]
  • Nun Morgan Harry - Secretary, ?–1842[7]
  • John Jefferson - Congregational pastor; Secretary, 1842–1848 [8]
  • Henry Richard - Congregational pastor and politician; Secretary, 1848–1885 [9]
  • W. Evans Darby - Secretary, 1885–1915
  • Herbert Dunnico - Secretary, 1915–?[10]

Members

Founding members

  • William Allen- Quaker philanthropist; founding member
  • Rev. Thomas Harper - founding member (Obituary in The Herald of Peace 1831, p. 528)[3]

Non-founding members

Records of the Peace Society

  • International Peace Society Records, 1817-1948 at Swarthmore College. Note: this is a large file of pamphlets and other printed publications of the Society. There is an historical introduction to the collection but no business archives are in the collection.
  • Other records of the Peace Society are said to be in the possession of Mr CP Dunnico[11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Peter Barberis, John McHugh, Mike Tyldesley, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000, p.345.
  2. ↑ Researching Yorkshire Quaker History (2007) p.95, Item 1.5.6: Doncaster Auxiliary Peace Society p.97 1.5.13: Leeds Peace Association
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Herald of Peace, Volume 8 (1831) available online at Googlebooks.
  4. ↑ Cornell University Library has produced a facsimile of The Herald of Peace 1824 (April, May, June) issues (pages on Amazon.com) ISBN 978-1-4297-2848-5
  5. ↑ Spartacus article on Joseph Pease
  6. ↑ The Memoirs of Evan Rees, the first Secretary, were published in 1853. They are available online at GoogleBooks.
  7. ↑ details of four published texts by Rev Nun Morgan Harry are to be found in the British Library Integrated Catalogue.
  8. ↑ The British Library Integrated Catalogue list The Unlawfulness of War: a Discourse [on Luke ii. 14] (1832) by John Jefferson of Stoke Newington, together with a large number of other titles by this author. They are likely to be the same person at the Secretary of the Peace Society. Also listed is: The Proceedings of the first General Peace Convention held in London, June, ... 1843. With the Papers laid before the Convention, etc. [Edited by J. J., i.e. John Jefferson, and published by the Society for the promotion of permanent ... Peace, etc.]
  9. ↑ Harry, Jefferson and Richard are all buried at Abney Park Cemetery.
  10. ↑
  11. ↑ Researching Yorkshire Quaker History (2007)p.95, Item 1.5.6.

Further reading

  • Paul Laity The British Peace Movement, 1870-1914, Cambridge University Press, 2001 ISBN 0-19-924835-4, some pages available at GoogleBooks - Chapter 1 concerns the founding of the British Peace Society in 1816.
  • The Times, Wednesday, 23 May 1866; p. 12; Issue 25505; col C: THE PEACE SOCIETY.-The 50th anniversary
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