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Hubert Bland
1914Apr, 14

Hubert Bland

Hubert Bland, English activist, co-founded the Fabian Society (b. 1855)
Hubert Bland (3 January 1855 – 14 April 1914) was an English author and the husband of Edith Nesbit. He was known for being an infamous libertine, a journalist, an early English socialist, and one of the founders of the Fabian Society.

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