Charles Vickery Drysdale
Charles Vickery Drysdale | |
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Vickery and Sanger in 1925 | |
| Born | 8 July 1874 Paris, France |
| Died | 7 February 1961 (aged 86) Pebsham, Sussex, England |
| Spouse | Bessie Ingman Edwards |
Charles Vickery Drysdale FRSE CB OBE (8 July 1874 – 7 February 1961) was an English electrical engineer, eugenicist, and social reformer. He is remembered for opening the second birth control clinic in Britain in 1921 and co-founding the Family Planning Association in 1930.
As an engineer he is remembered as the inventor of the Phase-shifting transformer. He was co-founder of the Institute of Physics and served as its Vice-President 1932–1936.
He was first a Malthusian and then a Neo-Malthusian and served as President of the Malthusian League. He is seen as a founding father of Neo-Malthusianism.