J. Isaac Pengelly
J. Isaac Pengelly | |
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| Born | John Isaac Pengelly 1853 |
| Died | 1937 (aged 84) |
| Occupation | Clerk |
John Isaac Pengelly (1853 – 1937) was an English clerk and activist for animal rights and vegetarianism. He was a clerk to Exeter Magistrates for 48 years and the founder of Exeter Vegetarian Society.
Career
[edit]Pengelly was educated at St. John's Hospital School in Exeter.[1] He left school to become clerk of H. D. Barton of Exeter Magistrates. He succeeded Barton as clerk to the Justices in 1887.[1] During his career he had worked with 117 justices in connection with the police court. He was clerk of the Exeter Insurance Committee from 1912 to 1932.[1] He was a member and solicitor of the Western Provident Association.[1]
He retired from clerkship after 48 years in 1935.[1][2] He was a director and vice-chairman of Exeter City Football Club.[1]
Vegetarianism
[edit]Pengelly was introduced to vegetarianism through reading a letter by R. Bailey Walker in the Exeter papers in Autumn 1880.[3] Pengelly became a vegetarian in 1881 for ethical reasons. He acknowledged the health and hygienic benefits of a vegetarian diet but stated that he gave up eating meat due to the unnecessary cruelty of animal slaughter.[4] Pengelly was founder and secretary of the Exeter Vegetarian Society.[5][6] He was elected president in 1891 and was president of the Devon and Exeter Vegetarian Society in 1894.[7][8] His wife Lavinia was initially hostile to vegetarianism but later converted and lectured on vegetarian meals.[3][9][10] She died in 1913.[11]
In 1894, he authored a pamphlet Animal Rights, which dealt "exhaustively with the whole matter of man's duty in regard to the treatment of animals".[4] Pengelly attended the annual meeting of the Vegetarian Federal Union in 1896.[12] He served on the General Council of the Order of the Golden Age and was its Registrar in 1896.[13][14]
In 1898, Pengelly argued that all references to meat eating in school books should be eliminated and that the young should not be imbued with the idea of bloodshed in preparation of food.[15] Pengelly was known to have worn vegetarian boots.[16]
Death
[edit]Pengelly died in Exeter, aged 84.[17] His funeral took place at St. James' Church, Exeter.[17]
Selected publications
[edit]- Animal Rights (1894)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f "Loss to Exeter: Death of Mr. J. I. Pengelly". The Western Times. May 7, 1937. p. 15. (subscription required)
- ^ "Mr. J. I. Pengelly: Funeral of Former Clerk to Justices". Devon and Exeter Gazette. May 14, 1937. p. 5. (subscription required)
- ^ a b Forward, Charles W. (1898). Fifty Years of Food Reform: A History of the Vegetarian Movement in England. London: The Ideal Publishing Union. p. 143.
- ^ a b "Economic, Nutritious, and Hygienic Diet". The North Devon Herald. May 31, 1894. p. 3. (subscription required)
- ^ "Exeter Vegetarian Society". The Devon and Exeter Daily Gazette. April 21, 1891. p. 2. (subscription required)
- ^ Forward, Charles W. (1898). Fifty Years of Food Reform: A History of the Vegetarian Movement in England. London: The Ideal Publishing Union. p. 140.
- ^ "Exeter Vegetarian Society". The Western Times. April 22, 1891. p. 3. (subscription required)
- ^ "Devon and Exeter Vegetarian Society". The Western Times. March 12, 1894. p. 4. (subscription required)
- ^ "Exeter Vegetarians and Their Cooking". The Western Times. March 5, 1896. p. 3. (subscription required)
- ^ Gregory, James Richard Thomas Elliott (2002). "Biographical Index of British Vegetarians and Food reformers of the Victorian Era". The Vegetarian Movement in Britain c.1840–1901: A Study of Its Development, Personnel and Wider Connections (PDF). Vol. 2. University of Southampton. p. 91.
- ^ "Death of Mrs. J. I. Pengelly". The Western Times. April 14, 1913. p. 2. (subscription required)
- ^ "Vegetarian Federal Union 1889-1911". International Vegetarian Union. 2024. Archived from the original on June 20, 2024.
- ^ "Local News". The Western Times. February 4, 1896. p. 6. (subscription required)
- ^ "City Topics". The Western Times. February 18, 1896. p. 5. (subscription required)
- ^ "Vegetarian Congress". The Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. September 15, 1898. p. 6. (subscription required)
- ^ Gregory, James (2005). Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-century Britain. Tauris Academic Studies. p. 55. ISBN 978-0857715265.
- ^ a b "Magistrates' Clerk For 48 Years: Funeral of Mr. J. I. Pengelly at Exeter". The Western Times. May 14, 1937. p. 12. (subscription required)
