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Johanna Kinkel 1810 – 1858
Johanna Kinkel (1810-1858) was a German composer, writer, and revolutionary. Kinkel was a patient of homeopath James John Garth Wilkinson (Rosemary Ashton, Little Germany: exile and asylum in Victorian England, (Oxford University Press, 1986). Page 285) (Anon, The English Woman’s Journal, (English Woman’s Journal Co., London 1859). Page 307),
Charles William Pasley 1780 – 1861
Charles William Pasley (1780–1861) KCB was a British soldier and military engineer who wrote the defining text on the role of the post-American revolution British Empire: An Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire, published in 1810. This text changed how Britons thought their empire should relate to the rest of the world. He warned that Britain could not [...]
A E Blest ? – ?
A E Blest ?-? MD Edinburgh 1821, MRSCL 1822, member of the Royal Physical Society Edinburgh, was a British physician who served in India with the Madras Establishment for 26 years (Anon, The asiatic Journal and monthly register for British India and its Dependencies, (Black, Parbury & Allen, 1841). Page 383), and he converted to homeopathy [...]
William Thomas Berger 1815 – 1899
William Thomas Berger (1815–1899) was a Christian starch manufacturer in London and owner of Samuel Berger & Co., a patent rice starch manufacturer, who became the first home (England) director of the China Inland Mission with James Hudson Taylor in 1865 ((James Hudson Taylor, A Retrospect, (Morgan and Scott). Multiple pages).). Berger was on the management board of the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square (Anon, Homeopathic Record, Volumes [...]
Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan 8th Baronet 1800 – 1879
Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan 8th Baronet 1800-1879 was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1825 and 1857. From Noodles & Knaves: Dr. Charles Thomas Pearce (1815-1883) ‘Martyr of Homœopathy’ by David Charles Manners (his 3rd great grandson) – Charles Thomas Pearce was an ironmonger who became a philosophical instrument maker. In 1841, his 1s born [...]
Charles A Hepburn 1891 – 1971
Charles A Hepburn 1891-1971 was a Scottish businessman, a joint founder, along with Herbert Ross, of the Hepburn and Ross whisky blending company, which was the first to blend the popular Red Hackle whisky (blended today by Lang Brothers). Hepburn was a patient of homeopath Ephraim Connor, and he persuaded him to take a degree in medicine at the [...]
Patrick Joseph Dollan 1885 – 1963
Patrick Joseph Dollan (1885–1963) and his wife, Agnes, Lady Dollan (née Moir; 1887–1966) were Glasgow activists in the Scottish Independent Labour Party. During the First World War they campaigned against the Munitions of War Act of 1915 which suspended trade unionists’ rights for the duration of hostilities. He served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1938-41. He was later knighted. Patrick Dollan was a patient of homeopath Ephraim Connor (please [...]
Alexander John Scott 1805 – 1866
Alexander John Scott (1805–1866) was a Scottish dissident theologian, who became the first principal of Owens College. Scott was a friend of Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, James John Garth Wilkinson. On 15th April 1848, Garth Wilkinson wrote to his wife Emma (Swedenborg Archive Family Register A148b Temple Bar loose leaf Documents and Summary Enclosed): ‘… I heard Mr. Scott last [...]
James Pierrepont Greaves 1777 – 1842
James Pierrepont Greaves (1777-1842) was an English mystic, educational reformer, socialist and progressive thinker who founded Alcott House, a short-lived utopian community and free school in Surrey. He described himself as a “sacred socialist” and was an advocate of vegetarianism and other health practices. Greaves was an advocate of homeopathy, and he recommended that his friend Edward Strachey visit a homeopathy for his injured knee (J. [...]
Francois Marie Charles Fourier 1772-1837
Francois Marie Charles Fourier (1772-1837) was an influential French socialist philosopher, who is credited with inventing the term ‘feminism’. His influence was widely felt across the Western world, and Fourierist influenced communities sprang up in America at this time. Many people were deeply influenced by his philosophy and they have become main currents in modern societies across [...]
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