Elsie Shrigley
{{Short description|English vegan activist and co-founder of The Vegan Society}}
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| name = Elsie Beatrice Shrigley
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| birth_name = Elsie Beatrice Salling
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|10|30|df=y}}
| birth_place = North London, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1978|05|13|1899|10|30|df=y}}
| death_place = Tonbridge, Kent, England
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| occupation = Veganism activist
| years_active =
| known_for = Co-founding The Vegan Society
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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.{{Cite web|last=Fox|first=Sarah W.|date=2017-04-30|title=Elsie Shrigley: The Woman Behind the Word Veganism|url=http://www.collectivelyfree.org/elsie-shrigley/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-02-06|website=Collectively Free|language=en-US}}{{Cite book|last=Greenwood|first=Margaret Puskar-Pasewicz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3-braqoek0AC|title=Cultural Encyclopedia of Vegetarianism|year=2010|isbn=978-0-313-37557-6|location=Santa Barbara, California|pages=239|oclc=693771866}}
Biography
Shrigley was born in North London, in 1899, to a Swedish mother and Danish father.{{Cite web|last=Davis|first=John|date=September 2016|title=The Origins of the Vegans: 1944-46|url=https://vegsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Origins-of-the-vegans.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101075908/https://www.vegsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Origins-of-the-vegans.pdf|archive-date=2019-11-01|access-date=2021-02-06|website=The Vegetarian Society UK|url-status=dead}} She married Walter Shrigley, a dentist, in 1939.{{Cite web|date=2016-04-27|title=In search of Sally - The Lesser Known Founder of The Vegan Society with Donald Watson|url=http://www.veggievision.tv/in-search-of-sally-2/|access-date=2021-02-06|website=VeggieVision.TV|language=en-GB}} Shrigley became a vegetarian in 1934 and stopped eating dairy from 1944. 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{{cite web|last=|first=|date=17 January 2020|title=The seeds of veganism|url=https://www.ft.com/content/2d5b0550-372c-11ea-a6d3-9a26f8c3cba4|url-access=subscription|archive-url=|archive-date=|accessdate=2021-02-06|website=Financial Times}} led to the formation of the vegan movement and the founding of The Vegan Society.{{Cite web|date=2019-09-01|title=The Women Pioneers of the Movement: Rarely Out of the Shadows|url=https://www.vegfest.co.uk/2019/09/01/women-pioneers-movement-rarely-shadows/|access-date=2021-02-06|website=VegfestUK|language=en-GB}}
Shrigley was an honorary secretary of the Croydon Vegetarian Society from 1940 to 1958 and was later a secretary for the Surrey Vegetarian Society.{{Cite web|last=Arioch|first=David|date=2018-10-06|title=Elsie Shrigley, uma pioneira do movimento vegano|trans-title=Elsie Shrigley, a pioneer of the vegan movement|url=https://vegazeta.com.br/elsie-shrigley-na-historia-do-veganismo/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-02-06|website=Vegazeta|language=pt-BR}} 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.
She died in Tonbridge, Kent in 1978.
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Category:English veganism activists
Category:Activists from London