Marie Carmichael Stopes

Marie Carmichael Stopes , 1880-1958, English paleobotanist and eugenicist, b. Edinburgh, D.Sc. Univ. of London, Ph.D. Univ. of Munich. She lectured on paleobotany at the universities of London and Manchester. In 1921, with Humphrey Verdon Roe, her second husband, she founded the first birth-control clinic in the British Empire. Her activities in this field gave impetus to similar movements elsewhere. Her many works include books on eugenics, birth control, and paleobotany.

Stopes, Marie Charlotte Carmichael (1880–1958) English pioneer of birth control. Stopes campaigned for a more rational and open approach to contraception, establishing the first birth control clinic in Britain in 1921. She wrote Wise Parenthood (1918) and Contraception: Its Theory, History and Practice (1923, 1931).

Stopes, Marie ( Charlotte Carmichael) (1880–1958), distinguished palaeobotanist; established the first birth control clinic in England in 1921, in Holloway, London. She wrote on such subjects as Married Love (1918), Wise Parenthood (1918), Radiant Motherhood (1920), and sexual fulfilment within marriage. She also published several volumes of plays and of poetry.