Barbara Moore (vegetarian activist)

Barbara Moore, born Anna Cherkasova (Russian: Анна Черкасова; 22 December 1903 – 14 May 1977),[1] was a Russian-born British engineer who attempted to gain celebrity status in the early 1960s for her long-distance walking and promotion of questionable health fads.

[4] In November 1944 the then-new Vegan Society held its first meeting, at the Attic Club, 144 High Holborn, London.

Those in attendance were Donald Watson, Elsie B. Shrigley, Fay K. Henderson, Alfred Hy Haffenden, Paul Spencer and Bernard Drake, with Moore observing.

[1] Her John o'Groats-to-Land's End walk caught the attention of Harry Griffin, who advocated a revival of the Bob Graham Round as possibly a much sterner test of fitness.

[6] Moore was portrayed by Zena Walker in a dramatisation of her later life in a 1980 episode of Play For Today entitled 'That crazy woman' after one of the newspaper headlines generated by her walks.