Founded as the Labourer's Friend Society by Lord Shaftesbury intending to improve working class conditions. It was keen on the provision of allotments. 1844 it changed its name to the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes.Incorporated by Royal Charter 1850. In 1959, the company became the 1830 Housing Society, which was taken over in 1965 by the Peabody Trust.
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Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes
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Nottingham House
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Elizabeth Fry
Prison reformer. Born as Elizabeth Gurney in Norwich into a Quaker banking family. Priscilla Wakefield was her aunt. She first visited Newgate prison in 1813 and was appalled at the conditions of ...
2 memorials
Maud(e) Stanley
A youth work pioneer who produced an early comprehensive youth work text - and helped to found the London Union of Girls Clubs. Daughter of Lady Stanley. Founded the Soho Club and Home for Working ...
1 memorial
Tolpuddle Martyrs
6 Dorset farm labourers, transported to Australia for joining a trade union. Following mass protests against their treatment the government was forced to give pardons and eventually after 2 years, ...
2 memorials
Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl Meath, KP
Born near Belgrave Square. The Earl of Meath was actively engaged in social and philanthropic work. He was the first chairman of the Young Men's Friendly Society, first President of the British Col...
1 memorial
Philip Blairman
Son of Harris Blairman who arrived from Poland in the late 1870s and in 1884 established the antique business, H. Blairman & Sons Ltd. Following active service in the Royal Flying Corp, Philip ...
2 memorials
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