Edward Aveling

Edward Bibbins Aveling (29 November 1849 – 2 August 1898) was an English comparative anatomist and popular spokesman for Darwinian evolution, atheism and socialism. He was also a playwright and actor.

Aveling was the author of numerous scientific books and political pamphlets; he is perhaps best known for his popular work ''The Student's Darwin'' (1881); he also translated Ernst Haeckel's Gesammelte populäre Vorträge, as ''The Pedigree of Man'' (1883); the first volume of Karl Marx's ''Das Kapital'', and Friedrich Engels' ''Socialism: Utopian and Scientific''. He was elected vice-president of the National Secular Society in 1880, he was a member of the Democratic Federation and then a member of the executive council of the Social Democratic Federation and was a founding member of the Socialist League and the Independent Labour Party. During the imprisonment of George William Foote for blasphemy he was interim editor for ''The Freethinker'' and ''Progress. A monthly magazine of advanced thought''. With William Morris he was the sub-editor of ''The Commonweal''. He was an organizer of the mass movement of the unskilled workers and the unemployed in the late 1880s unto the early 1890s and a delegate to the International Socialist Workers' Congress of 1889. For fourteen years he was the partner of Eleanor Marx, the youngest daughter of Karl Marx, and co-authored many works with her. Provided by Wikipedia