Sidney H. Beard

Sidney Hartnoll Beard (1862 – 20 October 1938) was an English fruitarian, vegetarian activist and writer. He was President of the Order of the Golden Age.

Sidney Hartnoll Beard
Born1862
London, England
DiedOctober 1938 (aged 75–76)
Putney, England
OccupationVegetarianism activist, writer

Biography

Beard was born in London. He became a vegetarian in 1894.[1] He re-established the Order of the Golden Age in 1895.[2][3] The Order's headquarters were located at Beard's residence in Ilfracombe.[1] In 1904, the Order's new headquarters were located at Barcombe Hall in Paignton.[1][3]

Beard was the editor of the Herald of the Golden Age (1896-1918), the official journal for the Order of the Golden Age.[2][4] The aim of the journal was to promote the "fruitarian system of living, and to teach its advantages."[4] The journal promoted vegetarianism from a Christian perspective. Beard believed that a vegetarian diet should be pursued as a moral duty.[5] Charles W. Forward described Beard as having "militant enthusiasm, intense earnestness and unswerving faith".[6]

He was married to Annie Patterson.[2] Beard and his wife were spiritualists.[1] He campaigned for the humane treatment of animals as part of his Christian spiritual belief system.[7]

Beard authored A Comprehensive Guide-Book to Natural, Hygienic and Humane Diet, in 1902. The book was criticized by health writer Carl Malmberg for making extremist claims.[8] Beard died in Putney on 20 October 1938.[1]

Selected publications

References
  1. "Sidney H. Beard (1862-1938)". Order of the Golden Age. Retrieved July 22, 2019.
  2. Anonymous. (1978). Who Was Who Among English and European Authors, 1931-1949. Volume 1. Gale Research Company. p. 114. ISBN 0-8103-0400-7
  3. Gregory, James. (2007). Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Tauris Academic Studies. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-84511-379-7
  4. Kuhn, Philip. (2017). Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1893–1913: Histories and Historiography. Lexington Books. pp. 73-74. ISBN 978-1498505222
  5. Stark, James F. (2018). Replace them by Salads and Vegetables: Dietary Innovation, Youthfulness, and Authority, 1900–1939. Global Food History 4 (2): 130-151.
  6. Forward, Charles W. (1898). Fifty Years of Food Reform: A History of the Vegetarian Movement in England. London: The Ideal Publishing Union. p. 169
  7. Bates, A. W. H. (2017). Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain: A Social History. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 82. ISBN 978-1-137-55696-7
  8. Malmberg, Carl. (1935). Diet and Die. Hillman-Curl, Inc. p. 48
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