Early life Drakoules was born Alice Marie Lambe in
Brussels, Belgium, around 1850. he died in Brussels in 1851, aged 29. Drakoules spent much of her early life in Cornwall.
Career Vegetarian advocacy '', 10 August 1889. According to
Hilda Kean, Drakoules was a lifelong
vegetarian, though
James Gregory states that she first began to examine vegetarian ideas around 1884 and joined the
Vegetarian Society as an associate member in 1886. Burns later credited her with inspiring his East End Food Depot and influencing his "Pure Food" campaign. The branch organised lectures by prominent speakers. In 1889, writing on the "Rights of the Non-Human Races" in ''The Women's Penny Paper'', Lewis argued that
women's emancipation should be accompanied by "hostility towards deeds of violence" and by "the spread of the instinct of pity and mercy". In the same essay, she denounced meat production, animal transport, and vivisection, and wrote that "man at present has no just claim to regard himself as the worthy Head of the animal world." Drakoules was a founding member of the executive council of the
Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society, founded by
Louise Lind af Hageby in 1906. She remained involved with the organisation, supporting its campaigns for municipal slaughterhouses,
humane slaughter, and the abolition of
performing animals. In 1911 her home was used for a meeting to discuss the
slaughter of cattle in India for food supplied to British soldiers, with
Ernest Bell presiding. She was also a member of the League's diet department. In 1910 Alice Drakoules represented Greece at the
third World Vegetarian Congress in Brussels, where she and her husband were commended for their work for vegetarianism and humanitarian reform in Greece and elsewhere.
Personal life Marriages in 1894, Alice Drakoules's second husband and fellow humanitarian reformer On 18 April 1876, she married William Burrowes Lewis, of Weybridge, at the
parish church of St Grade, Cornwall; he was the managing director of the Union Assurance Company. In 1911
Light published her husband Platon's account of a home demonstration by the American clairvoyant
Bert Reese. Platon stated that the manifestations were genuine, and Alice endorsed this.
Death and estate Drakoules died at her home in Regent's Park, on 15 January 1933, aged 83. She was buried at
Kensal Green Cemetery on 19 January. Under the terms of her will, Drakoules left an estate valued at £16,061 (), with the residue to be distributed after the death of her second husband. Bequests were made to the
London Vegetarian Society, the
Manchester Vegetarian Society, the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society, the
National Anti-Vaccination League, the
National Canine Defence League, the
People's Dispensary for Sick Animals, the
National Anti-Vivisection Hospital, and the
Not Forgotten Association, as well as to the
Metropolitan Public Gardens Association in memory of her first husband. == Legacy ==