Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize | |
Year: | 1901 |
Number: | 25 - 1 |
Nominee: |
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Name: | William Thomas Stead |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1849 |
Year, Death: | 1912 |
Profession: | Journalist, author and publisher. |
City: | London |
Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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: |
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Name: | John Theodor Lund |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1842 |
Year, Death: | 1913 |
Profession: | Customs officer. Member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (1897-1913) |
Country: | NORWAY (NO) |
Comments: | 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. |
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