Founded by Doctor Charles Vickery Drysdale as the National Birth Control Council, formed by the merger of five birth control societies. Name changed to the National Birth Control Association in 1931, to the Family Planning Association in 1939, and to FPA in 1998.
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Family Planning Association
Dr Charles Vickery Drysdale, 1874 - 1961, a founder of the Family Planning As...
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A retirement village created with a bequest from William Whiteley. A charitable trust provides almshouses for people of limited financial means. From the Arts and Crafts Movement in Surrey: "The s...
Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.
A local group dedicated to the economic, environmental and social regeneration of the area.
Group, Community / Clubs, Gardens / Agriculture, Social Welfare
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Born Jane Parker, a distant relative of Henry VIII, she became a lady-in-waiting to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, and to quite a few of those that followed. Married Anne Boleyn’s brother, G...
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