Havelock Ellis

Henry Haslock Ellis was born 2 February 1859 in Croydon, England, son of Edward Peppern and Susanna Mary Ellis. At the age of 19, Henry went with his father to study in the Australian outback. After returning to the United Kingdom in 1879, he became a medical student at Southwark, St. Thomas's Hospital. Early in 1884, Ellis was one of the founding members of the Fabian Society, a socialist political party. His first book, The New Ghost, was published in 1890, and he married Edith Lees in 1891. Ellis has continued to write and publish, on topics such as the national health system especially sexual and sexual issues. Henry H. Ellis retired from Suffolk, where he died on July 8, 1939.