Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1901
Number:25 - 1
 
Nominee:
Name:William Thomas Stead
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1849
Year, Death:1912
Profession:Journalist, author and publisher.
City:London
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
 
Motivation:Stead promoted peace and international arbitration. He attended several peace conferences, including The Hague (1899) and Kristiania (1899). Stead instigated the so-called "Peace Crusade" in England and Scotland, and he published the journal "War against war". He believed that the best guarantee for world peace would be a peace treaty between Great Britain and Russia. Stead also agitated vigorously against the Boer War.
 
Nominator:
Name:John Theodor Lund
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1842
Year, Death:1913
Profession:Customs officer. Member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (1897-1913)
Country:NORWAY (NO)
 
Comments: John Lund also nominated the Inter-Parliamentary Union and Albert Gobat. Stead was a passenger on the British transatlantic liner Titanic when the ship struck an iceberg and sank in 1912, and he was one of the approximately 1,500 passengers who perished.