C. P. Newcombe
Cornelius Prout Newcombe (5 September 1825 – 30 July 1913) was an English vegetarianism and temperance activist, and a schoolmaster. He was also an early proponent of veganism. Biography Newcombe was born in St Luke's, London, in 1825, the son of a butcher. He married Caroline Tunnicliff in 1835, in Coventry; they had four children. He formed a partnership with Griffiths, Newcombe, & Co., in the early 1850s, a company of insurance brokers and ship builders. The company collapsed in 1854 and Newcombe became a schoolmaster. He remarried in 1858, this time to Mary Kirk. In 1868, he founded the Alexandra Park College, in Hornsey. Later in his teaching career, Newcombe moved to New Zealand, where he worked as the head of various schools. In 1895, he returned to England, where he continued to work as a headteacher. In 1911, Newcombe published The Manifesto of Vegetarianism, which was dedicated to John E. B. Mayor, Joseph Wallace and Albert Broadbent. Newcombe was the editor of The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review, the Vegetarian Society's journal. In 1912, Newcombe wrote in the journal about a division he perceived between vegetarians, those who consumed animal products, and those who did not; he opened