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STEPHEN HENRY HOBHOUSE 1880  

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Stephen Hobhouse was a prominent social worker and pacifist before the war, and campaigned for an end to hostilities throughout. In 1916 he was working as the Chair of the Friends’ Emergency Committee and attended the Hoxton Quaker meeting. He was sent before the Shoreditch Tribunal, which only granted him exemption from Combatant Service. A dedicated pacifist and absolutist, he refused, and willingly went to prison. While there, he was determined to remain true to his non-cooperation with the military system and ended up in solitary confinement for refusing to obey the “rule of silence”. His experience in prison seriously damaged his health and he was released, near to death, in 1917. After spending time in the brutal prison system, he and his wife, Rosa became passionate prison reform campaigners and argued successfully for the beginning of a systematic campaign of reform which has continued to the modern day.

 

 

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Born: 1880
Died:
Address: 36 Enfield Buildings, Hoxton, London
Tribunal: Shoreditch
Prison: Wormwood Scrubs, Exeter
HO Scheme: [1]
CO Work:
Occupation: Social Worker

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