Charles Drysdale (scientist)
Charles Drysdale may refer to: * Charles Douglas Drysdale (1915-1984), Scottish nationalist activist * Charles Robert Drysdale (1829-1907), British physician * Charles Vickery Drysdale Charles Vickery Drysdale FRSE CB OBE (1874–1961) was an English electrical engineer and social reformer. He is remembered for opening the second birth control clinic in Britain in 1921 and co-founding the Family Planning Association in 1930. ...

Charles Douglas Drysdale
Charles Douglas Drysdale (October 1915 – 1984) was a Scottish nationalist activist and businessman. Drysdale was born in Glasgow in October 1915, the second son of William Drysdale of Drysdales of Yoker, the pump manufacturers who supplied most of Glasgow's shipbuilding industry. He qualified as an engineer, and spent the war years with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME), achieving the rank of major and being awarded the MBE. At the end of the war, Douglas and his elder brother, Ian Drysdale, left Drysdales (which had been bought out by Weir Pumps by then) and started Drysdale Brothers (Larbert) Ltd, Bronze Founders and Engineers. He became active in the Scottish National Party (SNP) in 1962, having moved from Glasgow first to Dunblane and then to Dollar, Clackmannanshire. His wife, Olwen Drysdale, started the Dollar Branch of the SNP in 1962 and they were both very active politically. Despite having no previous political experience, he was elected as ...
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Charles Robert Drysdale
Charles Robert Drysdale (1829 – 2 December 1907) was an English engineer, physician, public health scientist, and supporter of birth control. He was the first President of the Malthusian League''Dr. Charles Robert Drysdale''
(1907). ''British Medical Journal'' 2 (2451): 1811. and he published books on a variety of topics including , syphilis, the evils of prostitution and the dangers of