Platon Drakoulis

Greek socialist politician

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Alice Marie Lambe

(m. 1907; died 1933)

Platon Eustathios Drakoulis or Drakoules (Greek: Πλάτων Δρακούλης; 1858 – 27 May 1942)^[1]^[2] was a Greek socialist politician. He worked as a lecturer at Oxford University and was one of the pioneers of the socialist labour movement in Greece. An energetic agitator and the most prominent figure in the nascent socialist movement, Drakoulis founded the Workers League of Greece. In August 1910, he was one of ten socialists elected to the national parliament and cooperated with the political party of Eleftherios Venizelos.^[3] He supported Greece's war efforts during the First World War.^[4] Drakoulis was a founder of the Greek Anti-Carnivore society and married English humanitarian and animal welfare campaigner Alice Marie Lambe, in 1907.^[5]

Selected publications

Study of the French Revolution (1890)
Specimen for the Worker: The Foundations of Socialism (1893)
Light Insider (1894)
Greek Language and Literature (1897)
Emancipation of Women (1912)

References

^ "Obituary". The Times. 28 May 1942. p. 7. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
^ Benaroya, Abraham (2013-01-21), "The socialist frenzy of two decades", Modernism: The Creation of Nation-States : Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945: Texts and Commentaries, volume III/1, Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945, Budapest: Central European University Press, pp. 444–449, ISBN 978-615-5211-93-5, retrieved 2020-06-21
^ Glasier, J. Bruce. The I.L.P. and Socialist Year Book: A Guide Book to the Labour and Socialist Movement at Home and Abroad. Manchester [England]: Independent Labour Party, 1911. p. 84
^ (in Greek) Γεώργιος Β. Λεονταρίτης (1979), Το ελληνικό σοσιαλιστικό κίνημα κατά τον Πρώτο Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο [=transl. of George B. Leon: The Greek Socialist movement and the First World War, 1976]. Αθήνα: Εξάντας, p. 63. ISBN 960-256-393-1.
^ "Drakoules [née Lambe; other married name Lewis], Alice Marie (c. 1850–1933), humanitarian and campaigner for animal welfare". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/50748. Retrieved 2020-06-27. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)