Nelson, Wallace Alexander (1856-1943)

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anti-conscriptionist; journalist; labour politician; Member of Lower House; newspaper editor
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NELSON, WALLACE ALEXANDER (1856-1943), journalist, rationalist and politician, was born on 29 April 1856 at Aberdeen, Scotland, son of John Nelson, comb-factory manager, and his wife Jean, née Dow. Self-education rather than schooling seems to have shaped his lively mind. He ran away to London and at 15 contributed republican verse to Reynold's Weekly Newspaper. Revelling in the writings of Darwin, Huxley, Spencer and Bain, he delivered his first lecture, on utilitarianism, in his teens. On 28 December 1877, a journeyman comb-maker, he married Ann Middleton at Aberdeen. In 1880 they went to Sheffield, where the diminutive Nelson (4 ft 8 ins (142 cm) tall) was an energetic freethought lecturer from 1883. A member of the Radical Party he associated with socialist luminaries, including William Morris and Edward Carpenter.

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  1. 'Nelson, Wallace Alexander (1856 - 1943)' - Australian Dictionary of Biography
    J. I. Roe
    [1986]
    Published: Melbourne University Press
    Series: Volume 10
    pp 678-679.

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