Perris, George Herbert (1866-1920)

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Jane Addams to Richard Theodore Ely, November 5, 1902

Address at the Universal Peace Congress Banquet, October 7, 1904

William T. Brewster to Jane Addams, November 30, 1911

Jane Addams to Emily Greene Balch, June 26, 1915

List of foreign dignitaries who met with International Congress of Women delegates July 28, 1915

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Birth Date

1866

Death Date

1920-12-23

Birthplace

Liverpool, England

Biographical Text

George Perris was a journalist and activist. Since 1883, George wrote for The Speaker for ten years and Concord, a pacifist journal, for eight years. He was a founder and Honorary Secretary of both the Anglo-Russian and Anglo-German Friendship Committee. He was also the foreign editor of The Tribune and The Daily News. Perris was also a pacifist and a member of the International Arbitration and Peace Association. He also served as Secretary of the Cobden Club. During World War I, he was a correspondent for The London Daily Chronicle, which has been his most well-known journalistic achievement.

Perris was married to Mary Annie Perris. They had three children: Noel Felix, Sylvia, and Katherine. Perris died in 1920.

Occupation

Journalist

Peace activist

War correspondent

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People

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Sciancalepore, Victoria

Lichon, Sara Catherine

Rights

Public domain

Gender

Male

First appears

1902

Bibliography and Links

1911 England Census

GEORGE H. PERRIS, JOURNALIST, DIES AT 53; War Correspondent, Stricken at Geneva, Succumbs to Pneumonia in London.; New York Times

Official Report of the 13th Universal Peace Congress, 1904, pp. 306, 333

Sandi E. Cooper, Patriotic Pacifism: Waging War on War in Europe, 1815-1914, 1991, pp. 54, 128

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“Perris, George Herbert (1866-1920),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed September 7, 2024, https://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/1918.