Edward G. Fairholme

Fairholme was born in London.{{Cite web|date=2024|title=Edward George Robert Fairholme (1873 - 1956)|url=https://www.rogerthomas.co.uk/dsp_personDisplay9d9f.html?id=88922&familyName=Chew|website=Roger Thomas's Genealogy|language=en-GB|archive-date=September 7, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240907171340/https://www.rogerthomas.co.uk/dsp_personDisplay9d9f.html?id=88922&familyName=Chew|url-status=live}} He was the son of Captain Charles Fairholme and Julie Pollnitz.Oakes, Charles Henry. (1956). Who's Who, Volume 108. A. & C. Black. p. 961 He was educated privately at Chatham House School in Ramsgate. He worked at William Heinemann publishers from 1896 and joined Lawrence & Bullen Ltd in 1901. He was Deputy Assistant Director Veterinary Service 1915–1916. In 1899, he was secretary of the third International Publishers' Congress in London. He wrote articles for The Academy, The Nineteenth Century, The Outlook and The Sketch. Fairholme lived at Campden Hill Court in London. He married Eleanor Chew in 1903.Burke, Bernard. (1939). [https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Burke_s_Genealogical_and_Heraldic_Histor/GxmoZTI6rj8C Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry]. Burke's Peerage. p. 739

Fairholme was a captain in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps in WWI.{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001578%2F19560114&page=26|title=Long Service to Animals: The Late Mr. E. G. Fairholme|newspaper=Illustrated London News |date=January 14, 1956|page=63}} {{subscription required}}{{Cite web|date=2024|title=We remember Edward George Robert Fairholme|url=https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/1187853|website=Imperial War Museums|language=en-GB|archive-date=September 7, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240907183715/https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/1187853|url-status=live}} He was awarded the 1918 New Year Honours (OBE). His brother Lieutenant-Colonel Henry William Fairholme committed suicide in 1933.{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000560%2F19330308&page=2|title=Colonel Found Shot Dead|newspaper=The Daily Mirror |date=March 8, 1933|page=2}} {{subscription required}} He died on 6 January 1956 at Frinton-on-Sea.

Fairholme was chief secretary of the RSPCA from 1908 to 1933, succeeding Gerard Lysley Derriman.{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001652%2F19081013&page=9|title=R.S.P.C.A. Secretaryship|newspaper=The Globe |date=October 13, 1908|page=9}} {{subscription required}} He was editor of the RSPCA's magazine The Animal World. He was an advocate of humane slaughter, suggesting that stun guns should be used on cattle and poultry.{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001464%2F19301218&page=6|title=Christmas Fare|newspaper=The Sheffield Daily Independent|date=December 18, 1930|page=6}} {{subscription required}}

Fairholme was a speaker at the First American International Humane Conference in Washington in 1910 and attended the Second International Humane Conference in 1923.{{cite journal|year=1910|title=Humane Education|journal=Our Dumb Animals|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435063613020&seq=88|volume=43|issue=6|pages=82}}{{cite journal|year=1923|title=Second International Humane Conference|journal=Our Dumb Animals|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435063008775&seq=306|volume=56|issue=7|pages=106}}Coleman, Sydney H. (1924). [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015003653550&seq=34 Humane Society Leaders in America, with a Sketch of the Early History of the Humane Movement in England]. The American Humane Association. p. 32 He was also a speaker at meetings of the Society for Promotion of Kindness to Animals.{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000514%2F19301115&page=9 |title=Kind Words and Deeds|newspaper=The Bath Chronicle and Herald |date=November 15, 1930|page=9}} {{subscription required}}

In 1924, he co-authored a history of the RSPCA. The Prince of Wales wrote a foreword for the book.{{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/83977610|title=The Prince on the R.S.P.C.A.|newspaper=The Daily News|date=August 2, 1924|page=4}} A second edition was published in 1934.{{cite journal|year=1935|title=The R.S.P.C.A.|journal=Nature|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/135164a0|volume=135|issue=|pages=164–165|doi=10.1038/135164a0}}

• The R.S.P.C.A. and the Decrepit Horse Traffic to the Continent (1910)
• [https://archive.org/details/greatbritaininco00milnuoft/page/400/mode/2up The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: Why it Was Needed and What it Has Done] (1914)
• [https://archive.org/details/centuryofworkfor0000edwa/page/n7/mode/2up A Century of Work for Animals: The History of the R.S.P.C.A., 1824-1924] (with Wellesley Pain, 1924)

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