Lewis Gompertz: Philosopher, Activist, Philanthropist, Inventor - Barry Kew

Barry Kew is an independent researcher/writer. He has also been a teacher, a local group co-founder/organiser, general secretary of the Vegan Society and editor of The Vegan magazine, author of The Pocketbook of Animal Facts and Figures (animal use in Britain), co-author of The Animal Welfare Handbook, and founder/editor of the former Critical Society e-journal.

GENRE: History, ethics, biography

Blurb:

This first book-length story and study of Lewis Gompertz (1784–1861) – co-founder of both the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Animals' Friend Society – charts his struggle against likely and unlikely enemies on behalf of other species, women, the poor, apprentices, prisoners and slaves. Outraging fearful, elitist Christians, his classic Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes (1824) attempted the formulation of a rationality morality for others' benefit.