{"id":"sidney-h-beard","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/sidney-h-beard","language":"en","name":"Sidney H. Beard","name_en":"Sidney H. Beard","name_ne":null,"description":"English vegetarian activist and writer (1862–1938)","headline":"English vegetarian activist and writer (1862–1938)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Sidney Hartnoll Beard was an English vegetarian and fruitarian activist and writer. He re-established and served as president of the Order of the Golden Age, edited its journal, the Herald of the Golden Age (1896–1918), and advanced a Christian case for vegetarianism framed as a moral duty. Defining fruitarianism broadly to include cereals, seeds, nuts, fruits, and vegetables with dairy and eggs permitted, he treated fish as a transitional food for those leaving flesh-eating.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"14 February 1862","date":"1862-02-14"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65923190#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Kensington","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q288781"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65923190#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"20 October 1938","date":"1938-10-20"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65923190#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Putney","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2465220"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65923190#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174193"},{"text":"United Kingdom","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q145"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65923190#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"writer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36180"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65923190#P106"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"president (since 1895)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30461","start":"1895"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65923190#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_H._Beard","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65923190"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Sidney H. Beard born?","a":"Sidney H. Beard was born on 14 February 1862 in Kensington."},{"q":"What positions has Sidney H. Beard held?","a":"Positions held by Sidney H. Beard include: president (since 1895)."}],"related":[{"name":"Hosni Mubarak","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hosni-mubarak"},{"name":"Gamal Abdel Nasser","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gamal-abdel-nasser"},{"name":"Mohamed Morsi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohamed-morsi"},{"name":"Mohamed Naguib","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohamed-naguib"},{"name":"Abdul Rahman Arif","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abdul-rahman-arif"},{"name":"Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/muhammad-najib-ar-ruba-i"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/sidney-h-beard-f22e34fa12.jpg","width":500,"height":628,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Charles W. Forward","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mr._Sidney_H._Beard.png"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Sidney H. Beard","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_H._Beard","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q65923190","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65923190","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Mr. Sidney H. Beard.png by Charles W. Forward (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mr._Sidney_H._Beard.png","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Sidney H. Beard, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Mr. Sidney H. Beard.png — Charles W. Forward, Public domain.","cite":"\"Sidney H. Beard\". DigiNepal. Last updated 6 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/sidney-h-beard. Retrieved 7 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-06T07:57:51Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-06","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/sidney-h-beard","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/sidney-h-beard","ne":null}}