Background
Caroline Haddon was born 15 April 1837 in Finsbury, the daughter of John Haddon and Elizabeth Cort.
Caroline Haddon was born 15 April 1837 in Finsbury, the daughter of John Haddon and Elizabeth Cort.
She was the sister-in-law of James Hinton, "the great influence of her life", and she wrote several works about Hinton and his thought. Haddon ran a girls" school in Dover. She paid for Havelock Ellis to pursue his study of medicine at Street Thomas"s Hospital.
Haddon died 13 March 1905.
In a talk she gave to the Fabian Society, "The Two Socialisms", she was the first at the society to use the word "socialism".