Chapman Cohen

Chapman Cohen (1868–1954) was a British atheist, secularist writer and lecturer. Born in Leicester, he was largely self-taught and was drawn into the freethought movement under the influence of Bradlaugh and Foote. From 1915 he served as editor of The Freethinker and as president of the National Secular Society, advocating materialism and opposing blasphemy laws. Writing for ordinary readers and skilled in argument, he addressed religion, sex and morality, and determinism versus free will in works such as Theism or Atheism, Religion & Sex, A Grammar of Freethought and Determinism or Free-Will?, helping to advance the British secularist movement. Public information is limited, and details of his life and the circulation of his works remain to be further verified.