Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize | |
Year: | 1912 |
Number: | 23 - 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: | Promoted international law and arbitration |
Nominator 1: |
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Name: | Sir Thomas Burt |
Gender: | M |
Profession: | Member of Parliament |
City: | London |
Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
Nominator 2: |
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Name: | H G Chancellor |
Gender: | M |
Profession: | Member of Parliament |
City: | London |
Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
Comments: | Stead was a passenger on the Titanic when the ship struck an iceberg, and he was one of the approximately 1,500 passengers who perished. Th nomination was submitted by H.S. Perris, Secretary of the National Peace Council in London, on behalf of the two nominators. |