Harold Baillie-Weaver (1861 – 18 March 1926) was a British barrister, theosophist and animal welfare campaigner.
Biography
Baillie-Weaver was born in Yorkshire.[1] He was the only son of Henry Edward Weaver.[2] He studied law at the University of London where he graduated LL.B and was accepted as a student of the Inner Temple in 1885.[1][2] He was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn on 28 January 1889.[1][2]
Baillie-Weaver and his wife lived in Newport, Essex where she was local secretary of National Canine Defence League and Our Dumb Friends' League.[4] He met Jiddu Krishnamurti in 1915 and took him under his wing. Krishnamurti resided with Baillie-Weaver and his wife at their house in Wimbledon.[8] In 1921, Baillie-Weaver was president of the Theosophical Fraternity in Education conference in Calais.[9]
National Council for Animals' Welfare
Baillie-Weaver and his wife founded the National Council for Animals' Welfare which supported the opening of the first humane abattoir at Letchworth.[3] In 1933, Jessey Wade merged the Animals’ Friend Society with the National Council for Animals’ Welfare. It published the monthly magazine The Animal's Friend in London. The editors in the 1940s were Yvonne A. M. Stott and J. Leonard Cather. It's magazine was supportive of anti-vivisection and vegetarianism. The organization disbanded in 1983.
Copies of The Animal's Friend are archived in the Animal Rights and Animal Welfare Pamphlets Collection at the Special Collections Research Center in NC State University Libraries.[10]
Death
Baillie-Weaver was in ill health for a year before his death on 18 March 1926 at his residence in Wimbledon.[1] An obituary described him as "kindly, generous, courteous and the soul of chivalry. His splendid personality influenced all who came within his ken, and all those who knew him felt inspired and uplifted in his presence".[1]
^ abcMcDonald, Deborah. (2014). The Prince, His Tutor and the Ripper: The Evidence Linking James Kenneth Stephen to the Whitechapel Murders. McFarland. pp. 134-135. ISBN978-1476616919
^ abcCrawford, Elizabeth. (2003). The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928. Taylor & Francis. p. 703. ISBN978-1135434014