page_title: Ernest Bell (activist)
section_title: Contributions to organisations
hierarchical_section_title: Ernest Bell (activist) / Contributions to organisations
caption_attribution_description: English: Ernest Bell freeing a caged bird – used to illustrate the original printing of this story in The Animals’ Friend Supplement – p54 – July 1902 – in the Ernest Bell Library
context_page_description: Ernest Bell was an English author and publisher, animal rights activist, animal welfare campaigner, humanitarian and vegetarian.
context_section_description: Bell donated a significant amount of his income to various societies throughout his life. He also co-founded and worked for a number of animal and vegetarian organisations:
  Animals' Friend Society (Council member)
  Anti-Bearing Rein Association (Hon. Secretary)
  Anti-Vivisection Society (Chairman)
  Cats Protection League (now known as Cats Protection; Treasurer)
  Humanitarian League (Chairman and Treasurer for over 20 years)
  League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports (now known as the League Against Cruel Sports; co-founder and Hon. Treasurer)
  London Vegetarian Society (Chairman of Committee)
  National Anti-Vivisection Society (Chairman)
  National Canine Defence League (Council member)
  National Equine Defence League (Treasurer)
  National Society for the Abolition of Cruel Sports (co-founder)
  Performing and Captive Animals' Defence League (co-founder)
  Pit Ponies' Protection Society (Treasurer)
  Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Council member)
  Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Hon. Secretary of the Hampstead branch for 30 years)
  Vegetarian Society (Vice-President 1896–1914; President 1914–1933)
caption: Ernest Bell freeing a caged bird c. 1902
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