The Nomination Database for the Nobel Prize
in Peace, 1901-1956

Year:	1901
Number:	25-1
Nominee:
Name:	William Thomas Stead
Gender:	M
Year, birth:	1849
Year, death:	1912
Profession/Category:	Journalist, author and publisher.
City:	London
Country:	GB (UNITED KINGDOM)
Motivation:	Stead promoted peace and international arbitration. He attended several peace conferences, including The Hague (1899) and Kristiania (1899). Stead instigated the so-called "Peace Crusade" in England and Scotland, and he published the journal "War against war". He believed that the best guarantee for world peace would be a peace treaty between Great Britain and Russia. Stead also agitated vigorously against the Boer War.
Nominator:
Name:	John Lund
Gender:	M
Profession/Category:	Customs officer. Member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (1897-1913)
Country:	NO (NORWAY)
Evaluation:
Evaluator 1:
Name:	Christian Lous Lange
Gender:	M
Comment:	John Lund also nominated the Inter-Parliamentary Union and Albert Gobat. Stead was a passenger on the British transatlantic liner Titanic when the ship struck an iceberg and sank in 1912, and he was one of the approximately 1,500 passengers who perished.