Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
Year: | 1903 |
Number: | 15 - 1 |
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Nominee:
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Name: | Priscilla Hannah Peckover |
Gender: | F |
Year, Birth: | 1833 |
Year, Death: | 1931 |
Profession: | Peace activist |
City: | Wisbech (Cambridgeshire) |
Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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Motivation: | Peckover founded the Wisbech Local Peace Association. She was editor and publisher of the journal "Peace and Goodwill". Peckover supported peace work in and outside of Great Britain, especially in the Nordic countries. |
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Nominator:
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Name: | William Evans Darby |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1844 |
Year, Death: | 1922 |
Profession: | Member of the Commission of the Peace Bureau. Secretary of the Peace Society |
City: | London |
Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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Comments: |
Lange requested more information on the nominee, but Darby did not see it as necessary to include more material, because "...her services to the cause of peace are a matter of such notoriety that I did not think it necessary to say more than I did." |
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