Eugenics Society life fellow. Anti-Semite. Attended the Nazi International Congress for Population Science (1935.) Founder of the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress. Stopes's first husband was R. Ruggles Gates, a co-founder and associate editor of Mankind Quarterly. Her second husband was Harry Verdon Roe. She left a huge fortune to the Eugenics Society. The Eugenics Society formed the Marie Stopes Memorial Foundation.