Sybil Neville-Rolfe OBE (22 June 1885 – 3 August 1955) was a social hygienist and founder of the Eugenics Society, and a leading figure in the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases.
[3] In 1941, she became both the first woman and the first non-American to receive the Snow Medal from the American Social Hygiene Association, for distinguished services to humanity.
[7] Neville-Rolfe's beliefs concerning eugenics and prostitution developed when she trained and worked as a rescue worker in a shelter for troubled girls.
She then left to find work elsewhere in Bethnal Green, London, where even there, she thought this staff of rescue workers was not competent or knowledgeable about contraception.
[8] Throughout her life she made several assertions as to how eugenics could be implemented into the governing bodies and institutions in Britain to preserve the Anglo-Saxon race.
She felt that without home influences that these girls were liable to fall to the temptation of premarital sex, as there was little provision for recreational activities for women outside of working.
These ideas included: She was born Sybil Katherine Burney in Queen's House, Royal Naval College, Greenwich on 22 June 1885.
[10] She knew multiple languages as she travelled to France and Germany as a teenager, however even this knowledge did not compare to her yearning for a University education.
Her first husband was Lieutenant Arthur Corry Gotto, whom she married on 29 December 1905, though this marriage was extremely brief due to his death in a coaling accident in September 1906.