Marie Stopes and Reginald Ruggles Gates black plaque
Marie Stopes · Writer
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“Marie Carmichael Stopes 1880-1958 Writer, dramatist and poet. Publicist of the campaign for sexual education. Advocate of family planning and founder of pioneer birth control clinic. Courageous crusader for the rights of women. Lived here during her first marriage to R.R. Gates.”
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1880-1958
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Well Walk, Hampstead
NW3
Hampstead Plaque Fund
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Marie Stopes
writer, dramatist, poet, publicist of the campaign for sexual education, advocate of family planning, founder of Pioneer Birth Control Clinic, courageous crusader for the rights of women, palaeobotanist, pioneer of family planning, lecturer in palaeobotany, social reformer, wife of Reginald Ruggles Gates, wife of Humphrey Verdon Roe, and mother of Harry Verdon Stopes-Roe · (1880-1958)
Reginald Ruggles Gates
husband of Marie Stopes · (1882-1962)
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