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Simon Population Trust

<p class="MsoNormal">Eugenicist <b>Lord Ernest Simon of Wythenshaw</b> (who became chairman of the <b>BBC</b> in 1947) was an ardent adherent of <b>Sidney and Beatrice Webb</b>, (core members of the <b>Fabian Society</b>).

His biography <a href="http://jfprhc.bmj.com/content/familyplanning/28/Suppl_2/SPT1.full.pdf" target="_blank">HERE</a> is a 'must read' in respect of his links to his extensive <b>Eugenics</b> related activities:</p>

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"An important contributor to the PEP Report was <b>Dr C P Blacker</b>. Dr Blacker, a psychiatrist, had been General Secretary of the<b>Eugenics Society</b> from 1930 to 1952, and was Honorary Secretary of the <b>Population Investigation Committee </b>until his death in 1975 (Langford, 1988). It was the ‘intimate association formed by the late <b>Lord Simon of Wythenshawe</b> and <b>Dr Blacker</b> in producing the <b>PEP report on World Population and Resources</b> (PEP, 1955) which had led to the founding of the <b>Simon Population Trust</b>&nbsp;according to an early set of Trustees’ Minutes."&nbsp;</p>

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(<i>from the biography linked above</i>)</p>