Carl Heath (1869–1950) was a leader of the Quaker movement in Britain and a penal reformer. He was the secretary of the National Peace Council during the First World War when he conceived the idea of Quaker embassies to establish an international Quaker organisation.[1][2] He was a member of the Humanitarian League and secretary of the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Abbott, Margery Post (2011). Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers). Scarecrow Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-8108-7088-8.
  2. ↑ Storr, Katherine (2009). Excluded from the Record: Women, Refugees, and Relief, 1914-1929. Peter Lang. p. 256. ISBN 978-3-03911-855-7.
  3. ↑ Weinbren, Dan (1994). "Against All Cruelty: The Humanitarian League, 1891-1919". History Workshop (38): 86–105. ISSN 0309-2984. JSTOR 4289320.

Further reading

  • Tritton, Frederick J., Carl Heath: Apostle of Peace. London: Friends Home Service Committee, 1951


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