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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes
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Nottingham House
Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes incorporated b...
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Owen Gordon, SBSTJ
Appointed as Serving Brother in 1983. The date of birth given on the memorial is 19XX.
1 memorial
Eleanor Jane Chute
She was born as Eleanor Jane Portal on 13 May 1854 in Oakley, Basingstoke, Hampshire, the second daughter and the third of the seven children of Sir William Spencer Portal, 1st Baronet (1822-1905) ...
1 memorial
George Lansbury
Born Suffolk. Member of the Poplar Borough Council 1903 - 1940, Mayor 1919 - 20 & 1936 - 37. Member of Parliament, Minister of the Crown, Privy Councillor. Leader of the Labour Party 1932 - 35...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare
7 memorials
Sir Alan Johnstone
Diplomat. Attended Eton, 1871-7. See his brother Francis for family information. Married an American heiress Antoinette Pinchot. His job took him to Denmark, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Luxemb...
1 memorial
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
Originally established by John Wilder to support psychiatric patients on discharge from hospital at a time when the Mental Health Act meant that psychiatric hospitals were being closed and replaced...
1 memorial
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