John Edward Quinlan

John Edward Quinlan was a British land surveyor and socialist of African descent, founder of the National Society for the Protection of the Dark Races (and editor of its main organ, The Telephone), and the author of The Earth a Plane, a treatise in support of the Flat Earth theory, in which he proposes that "evaporation" accounts for the disappearance of ships over the horizon, not the convexity of the earth.