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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2024-10-21 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2024-10-23 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007516b.htm corporateBody Eugenics Education Society in New South Wales AACR2 11 December 1912 1930? Start Place Sydney, New South Wales, Australia End Place Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Membership Organisation On 17 December 1912, J. Chambers Eldridge wrote to the secretary of the Eugenics Education Society (London) to inform them of the formation of the Eugenics Education Society in New South Wales on 11 December 1912. Dr Richard Arthur was elected president and Eldridge secretary. Other people associated with the Society were: Dr Mackellar; Professor Anderson Stuart; Mr H.C. Bell; Mr A.B. Patterson; Lionel Lewis (4 The Avenue, East St Kilda); Mrs Marion Piddington. NOTE: Correspondence with the Eugenics Education Society (London) ceases in November 1930. 23 February 1914 23 February 1914 Business event - Galton Day Dinner with guest Sir Gerald Strickland Piddington, Marion Louisa (1869 - 1950) Piddington, Albert Bathurst (1862 - 1945) Stuart, Thomas Peter Anderson (1856 - 1920) Mackellar, Charles Kinnaird (1844 - 1926) Arthur, Richard (1865 - 1932)

President 1912-?

 Victorian Eugenics Society (1914 - c. 1915)

Cognate body

 'Eugenics Education Society in New South Wales', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Eugenics Education Society in New South Wales Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Eugenics Education Society in New South Wales Wellcome Collection Eugenics Education Society in New South Wales SA/EUG/E.2 1912 - 1930 A set of 48 imaged pages. These records cover the foundation of the Eugenics Education Society in New South Wales 1912-1916 (10 pages) through the correspondence of the Secretary, J. Chambers Eldridge (Secretary of the State Labour Bureau of NSW) and President, Dr Richard Arthur (Member of the NSW State Legislative Assembly) with the Eugenics Education Society (London). The NSW society recommenced operations in 1921, after the World War (1914-1918) and the Influenza Pandemic of 1919. Arthur and Eldridge maintained their original roles and Mr H.C. Bell was named as Treasurer. A key focus of their work seems to have been 'Motherhood Endowment in Australia'. There is reference to the involvement of A.B. Piddington; Marion Piddington; and Lionel Lewis - regarding a Qualification of Marriage Act 1925-1926. Included is a copy of an article by Marion Piddington "Sex-training, Sex Education and Parental Metaphylaxis' under the broader program 'Eradication of Promiscuity and Veneral Disease' issued by the Haberfield Class for Sex Training. 1 file Digitised paper records