Hubert Bland

Hubert Bland (3 January 1855 – 14 April 1914) was an English author. He was known for being an infamous libertine, a journalist, an early English socialist, and one of the founders of the Fabian Society. He was the husband of Edith Nesbit. Early life and early careers Bland was born in Woolwich, south-east London, the youngest of the four children of Henry Bland, a successful commercial clerk, and his wife Mary Ann. He received his formal education in local schools. He was baptised on 14 March 1855 at St Mary Magdalene, Woolwich. As a young man, Bland, showed his "passion was for politics" by his "strong interest in the political ideas raised at social protest meetings."