The idea of adjusting clocks in order to benefit from daylight was first proposed in New Zealand in 1895, and was first implemented by Germany and her allies in WW1 (to save coal). William Willett came up with the idea independently in the UK in 1905 but it was not implemented here until WW1 and in the US in 1918.
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Daylight Saving Time
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William Willett - W3
Hamptons International, the estate agents, occupy William Willett’s former es...
Other Subjects
Margaret McMillan
Socialist propogandist and educationalist. Born at Throgg's Neck, Westchester county, New York. Both her parents were from Scotland, and the family returned there when her father died. She attended...
1 memorial
Keith Dudley Hoare, SBSTJ
At Gibraltar Fire and Rescue Service this photo is captioned: "Captain W. H. Keith Hoare relinquished Military Duties and was appointed as the first Gibraltarian civilian Fire Chief of Gibraltar. H...
1 memorial
Sir Edwin Chadwick
Born Lancashire but brought up in London. A friend of Jeremy Bentham, Bentham dying in his arms. Chadwick's major achievement was the 1842 publication of the Poor Law Commissioners' "Report on the ...
1 memorial
Dr Barnardo
Missionary and social worker with the British poor, especially children. Born Thomas John Barnardo in Dublin with a Prussian father. "Brought to Christ" in 1862. Arrived at 30 Coburn Street in 1866...
Person, Children, Jack the Ripper suspects, Social Welfare, Ireland
5 memorials
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