Marie Stopes (1880-1958)

Marie Stopes was a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights. She made significant contributions to plant paleontology and coal classification, and was the first female academic on the faculty of the University of Manchester. She was an advocate of birth control, and with her second husband, Humphrey Verdon Roe, Stopes founded the first birth control clinic in Britain.

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