Barbara Smoker
Barbara Smoker | |
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Born | Catford, London, England, UK | 2 June 1923
Died | 7 April 2020 Lewisham, London, England, UK | (aged 96)
Nationality | British |
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Main interests | Humanism |
Barbara Smoker (2 June 1923 – 7 April 2020)
Biography
Barbara Smoker was born in
In 1950 Smoker joined the
Her longest stint in her career as an activist was her tenure as President of the
Barbara Smoker became the South Place Ethical Society's last and only female Appointed Lecturer in 1986.[7] As of May 2014, with the death of Dr Harry Stopes-Roe, she became the only living Appointed Lecturer. In 2005 Barbara Smoker received the Distinguished Humanist Service Award from Humanists International. She was also awarded Honorary Member of Humanists UK (formerly the British Humanist Association) at some stage in recognition of her activism. Smoker lived in southeast London and in 2012 was elected the Honorary life president of the South East London Humanist Group in recognition that she was its last surviving founder member.[8]
She died in
Publications
- Good God! a string of verses to tie up the deity (1977) B & T, London, ISBN 0-905934-01-6
- Atheism on a Soap-Box (1985). London: National Secular Society.
- Humanism (2017, 7th edition), Barbara Smoker. G. W. Foote & Co. Ltd. ISBN 978-1-911578-04-8(an introduction to Humanism for secondary education)
- Blackham's Best (2007, 3rd edition), edited by Barbara Smoker. Published by British Humanist Association. Harold John Blackham).
- Freethoughts (2002), Barbara Smoker. G.W. Foote & Co. ISBN 0-9508243-5-6. (Selections of contributions to The Freethinker).
- My Godforsaken Life - Memoir of a Maverick (2018) Thornwick Press ISBN 978-1-912664-02-3(autobiography)
Editor:
- The Future of our Past: from Ancient Greece to Global Village, by ISBN 1-57392-042-8
Contributor:
- ROBINSON, PATRICIA (10 September 2014). "Street lighting is too bright in Lewisham". News Shopper. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
- Read, Carly (19 August 2014). "Elderly woman suffers sleepless nights as Lewisham Council changes lamppost light which beams through bedroom". News Shopper. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
- "Birthday salute to veteran secular campaigner Barbara Smoker". Camden New Journal. 6 June 2013. Archived from the original on 19 November 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
- Smoker, Barbara (18 May 2016). "Letters to the editor: Vote Leave to beat the bureaucrats". Evening Standard. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
See also
References
- Biography based on an entry in Rationalist International
- ^ a b "Former NSS president Barbara Smoker dies at 96", National Secular Society, 8 April 2020. Retrieved 8 April 2020
- ^ "In bed with Susan De Muth: Barbara Smoker / Stranglers in the night". The Independent. 14 September 1994. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-521-26672-7.
- ^ a b c d e "Humanists UK mourns Barbara Smoker (1923-2020), prolific activist for humanism, secularism, abortion rights, peace, and the right to die". Humanists UK. 8 April 2020. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- ^ "Kindred organisations, Ethical Record, July/August 1972, p27" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
- ^ Copson, Andrew (1 May 2020). "Barbara Smoker obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
- ^ See image of the Appointed Lecturer Board at Conway Hall
- ^ "Honorary Life President". Archived from the original on 24 March 2014.
- ^ https://www.facebook.com/marksmokerart/posts/the-extraordinary-barbara-smoker-b-2-jun-1923-died-yesterday-in-lewisham-hospita/510803442934668/
External links
- Barbara Smoker
- National Secular Society
- Dignity in Dying (formerly the Voluntary Euthanasia Society)
- Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (UK)