Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1911
Number:9 - 3
 
Nominee 1:
Name:William Evans Darby
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1844
Year, Death:1922
Profession:Congregational minister. Member of the Commission of the Peace Bureau
City:London
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
 
Nominee 2:
Name: The Peace Society
City:London
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
 
Motivation:Darby was secretary of the English Peace Society. He wrote and published literature on peace, international law and arbitration, and he attended several peace congresses. The Peace Society was one of the most influential elements in the British peace movement. It introduced the notion of arbitration to British inter-parliamentary peace work.
 
Nominator:
Name: 165 members of the British parliament, professors
Profession:Members of parliament. Professors
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
 
Comments: Darby himself submitted the nomination and enclosed additional information.