#ellen parker pinset

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A member of the Royal Commission on Care and Control of the Feebleminded from 1904 to 1908, she emerged a firm advocate of preventing the proliferation of the mentally deficient by compulsory institutionalization on a sexually segregated basis.⁶

6. Pearson to Maria Sharpe, Jan. 5, 1888, Karl Pearson Papers, Cabinet II, D3; Kathleen Jones, A History of the Mental Health Services (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972), p. 187; Nature, 84 (Oct. 6, 1910), 431; "Dame Ellen Frances Pinset," Dictionary of National Biography, volume for 1941-50, p. 673. Pinset approached the problem of mental deficiency somewhat in the veins of Goddard. She told a church congress in 1910, "We talk of 'equality of opportunity' and forget the radical inequalities which are born with us." Mrs. Pinset, "Social Responsibility and Heredity," Sept. 1910, copy in Pearson Papers, list 628.

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles