Eustace Haydon


Albert Eustace Haydon was a Canadian historian of religion and a leader of the humanist movement. He was ordained to Baptist ministry and served a church in Dresden, Ontario, in 1903–04. He ministered to the First Unitarian Society of Madison, Wisconsin, from 1918 to 1923. He was head of the Department of Comparative Religion at the University of Chicago from 1919 to 1945. While there, he was an influential voice of naturalist humanism. In 1933 he was one of signers of the Humanist Manifesto. The American Humanist Association awarded him the Humanist of the Year award in 1956.