R. E. O'Callaghan
Portrait from Fifty Years of Food Reform (1898)
Born
Robert Elliott O'Callaghan

1855 (1855)
London, England
Died21 December 1936 (aged 81)
Manchester, England
Occupation(s)Activist, lecturer, writer
Spouse
Mary Ann Barry
​
(m. 1888)​
Children1

Robert Elliott O'Callaghan (1855 – 21 December 1936) was an English vegetarianism activist, lecturer and writer.

Life and career

Robert Elliott O'Callaghan was born in London in 1855;[1] he was of Irish Catholic descent.[2]: 88  O'Callaghan's vegetarianism was inspired by one of Francis William Newman's lectures on vegetarianism that he spotted through a shop window.[3] In 1880, he joined the London Food Reform Society, the following year becoming a member of the Executive.[3] O'Callaghan was known for his success giving lectures on vegetarianism with illustrations using a magic lantern.[3]

O'Callaghan served as the official lecturer to the Vegetarian Association,[4] the secretary of the London Vegetarian Society,[5] and later as the First Secretary of the Vegetarian Federal Union, from 1890, and then as an agent to the Federal Union for the Southern Counties.[3]

In 1888, he married Mary Ann Barry;[6] they had one daughter.[7] He became the owner of the London vegetarian restaurant, the Wheatsheaf, at 13 Rathbone Place, Oxford Street, which he took over from Mrs Britton.[2]: 88 

In 1900, O'Callaghan founded the Catholic Humane League, with the intention of the "extension of humane principles among Catholics, in accordance with Catholic instincts and the teaching of the Church", serving as Honorary Secretary.[8]

O'Callaghan died in Manchester, at the age of 81,[9] on 21 December 1936.

Publications

  • The Best Diet for a Working Man (1889)[10]
  • The Manual of Vegetarianism: A Complete Guide to Food Reform (with Charles W. Forward; 1890)[2]: 351 
  • The Diet of Health & Happiness (1893)[11]: 7 
  • How to Begin Vegetarianism with Month's Dietary and Cookery Book (1897)[12]
  • The Testimony of Science Against Flesh Eating

References

  1. ↑ FreeBMD. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
  2. 1 2 3 Gregory, James Richard Thomas Elliott (2002). "Biographical Index of British Vegetarians and Food reformers of the Victorian Era". The Vegetarian Movement in Britain c.1840–1901: A Study of Its Development, Personnel and Wider Connections (PDF). Vol. 2. University of Southampton. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Forward, Charles Walter (1898). Fifty Years of Food Reform: A History of the Vegetarian Movement in England. London; Manchester: The Ideal Publishing Union; The Vegetarian Society. p. 148.
  4. ↑ "Appointments for March". Good Health. 6 (3): 85. 1908-03-01.
  5. ↑ "Vegetarianism in Sheffield". Sheffield and Rotherham Independent. 1889-08-21. p. 6.
  6. ↑ FreeBMD. England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
  7. ↑ The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Kew, Surrey, England; Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
  8. ↑ Boulger, G. S., ed. (1900). Nature Notes: The Selborne Society's Magazine. Vol. XI. London: H. Sotheran (published November 1900). pp. 202–203.
  9. ↑ General Register Office; United Kingdom; Volume: 8d; Page: 228
  10. ↑ "Bibliography: The Vegetarian Movement in England 1847-1981". International Vegetarian Union (IVU). Retrieved 2024-01-03.
  11. ↑ "John Johnson Collection: pre-1960 ephemera; Societies: Health, Vegetarian" (PDF). Bodleian Libraries. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
  12. ↑ "How to begin vegetarianism with month's dietary and cookery book". WorldCat.org. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
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