Formation | 1891 |
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Founders | Henry S. Salt, Edward Maitland, Ernest Bell, Howard Williams, Kenneth Romanes and Alice Lewis |
Dissolved | December 1919 |
Purpose | Promotion of humanitarianism and animal rights |
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The Humanitarian League was a British radical advocacy group formed by Henry S. Salt and others to promote the principle that it is wrong to inflict avoidable suffering on any sentient being. It was based in London and operated between 1891 and 1919.[1]