Hector Hawton
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Hawton, Hector (1901 - 1975)
The editor of Question in Great Britain, Hawton was the author of Why Be Moral? (1947), Men Without Gods (1948), The Humanist Revolution (1963), editor of The Rationalist Annual for the Year 1965, and Controversy: The Humanist / Christian Encounter (1971).
He signed Humanist Manifesto II.
In 1957, Hawton was editor of The Humanist, in which British journal he once wrote that Gilbert Murray preferred “freethinker” to either “humanist” or “rationalist.”
In 1968 in Hannover, Germany, Hawton addressed the Second European Conference of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU).
