John Davie (activist)
John Davie | |
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Davie in Fifty Years of Food Reform (1898) | |
| Born | 13 March 1800 Butterflat, Stirling, Scotland |
| Died | 4 March 1891 (aged 90) Dunfermline, Scotland |
| Resting place | Kirkcaldy Old Kirk Graveyard |
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| Years active | c. 1830 – c. 1890 |
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| Known for | Temperance and vegetarianism advocacy |
| Spouses | Margaret Smith (died 1884)Mary Livingston (m. 1890) |
John Davie (13 March 1800 – 4 March 1891) was a Scottish draper and social reformer based in Dunfermline. After retiring from business, he became active in the Scottish temperance movement, including as a founder of the Dunfermline Total Abstinence Society. He was also active in vegetarianism advocacy; he was honorary secretary of the Dunfermline Vegetarian Society and served as secretary, treasurer and later a vice-president of the Vegetarian Society. He was also a vice-president of the London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination, and was associated with a range of other Victorian reform causes including opposition to vivisection and capital punishment, support for Chartism and women's suffrage, and promotion of hydrotherapy, including as managing director of the Waverly Hydrotherapy Institution at Melrose.