Donaldson was a founder member of the Church Socialist League, and chaired the organisation from 1913 until 1916. He was also an early member of the
Christian Social Union, sat on the council of the Industrial Christian Fellowship. He was a leader of a march of unemployed workers from Leicester to London, in 1905.[7] In 1913, Donaldson led a deputation of Church of England clergy to the prime minister, H. H. Asquith, demanding women's suffrage. Being passionate about world peace, he was the president of the London Council for the Prevention of War (1927) and chairman of the League of Clergy for Peace (1931–40).[8]
References
^Ecclesiastical News.The Times (London, England), Thursday, Oct 11, 1951; pg. 8; Issue 52129
^‘DONALDSON, Rev. Frederic Lewis’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014
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^"Deaths: Canon Frederic Lewis Donaldson". Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party: 38. 1954.