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Person    | Male  Born 8/7/1874  Died 7/2/1961

Dr Charles Vickery Drysdale

Categories: Engineering, Social Welfare

Countries: France

Dr Charles Vickery Drysdale

Electrical engineer and social reformer promoting family planning and eugenics. Born in Paris. As an engineer, he invented the phase-shifting transformer, and was co-founder of the Institute of Physics. In 1921 he opened one of the first birth control clinics in Britain, and co-founded the Family Planning Association in 1930. 

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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