Elsie Shrigley

Elsie Beatrice Shrigley (née Salling; 30 October 1899 – 13 May 1978), also known as Sally Shrigley, was an English vegan activist and a co-founder, along with Donald Watson, of The Vegan Society in 1944. She is credited, by some, as coining the word "vegan" with Watson.[1][2]

Elsie Beatrice Shrigley
Born
Elsie Beatrice Salling

(1899-10-30)30 October 1899
North London, England
Died13 May 1978(1978-05-13) (aged 78)
Tonbridge, Kent, England
OccupationVeganism activist
Known forCo-founding The Vegan Society

Biography

Shrigley was born in North London, in 1899, to a Swedish mother and Danish father.[3] She married Walter Shrigley, a dentist, in 1939.[4] Shrigley became a vegetarian in 1934 and stopped eating dairy from 1944.[3] In August of the same year, Shrigley along with Donald Watson and others called for "a non-dairy section of the Vegetarian Society"; the rejection of this proposal from the society[5] led to the formation of the vegan movement and the founding of The Vegan Society.[6]

Shrigley was an honorary secretary of the Croydon Vegetarian Society from 1940 to 1958 and was later a secretary for the Surrey Vegetarian Society.[7] She was also a temporary secretary for the London Vegetarian Society for three months. She was President of The Vegan Society in the early 1960s, then taking various other positions in the society; she served on its committee until her death.[4]

She died in Tonbridge, Kent in 1978.[4]

References
  1. Fox, Sarah W. (2017-04-30). "Elsie Shrigley: The Woman Behind the Word Veganism". Collectively Free. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
  2. Greenwood, Margaret Puskar-Pasewicz (2010). Cultural Encyclopedia of Vegetarianism. Santa Barbara, California. p. 239. ISBN 978-0-313-37557-6. OCLC 693771866.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. Davis, John (September 2016). "The Origins of the Vegans: 1944-46" (PDF). The Vegetarian Society UK. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
  4. "In search of Sally - The Lesser Known Founder of The Vegan Society with Donald Watson". VeggieVision.TV. 2016-04-27. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
  5. "The seeds of veganism". Financial Times. 17 January 2020. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
  6. "The Women Pioneers of the Movement: Rarely Out of the Shadows". VegfestUK. 2019-09-01. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
  7. Arioch, David (2018-10-06). "Elsie Shrigley, uma pioneira do movimento vegano" [Elsie Shrigley, a pioneer of the vegan movement]. Vegazeta (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-02-06.
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