Group    From 1665 

Hebra Gemilut Hasadim

Categories: Social Welfare

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This phrase translates as "Society for Deeds of Loving Kindness", a Jewish Benevolent Society. It was established on the site where Albert Stern House now is and included a hospital for sick poor and lying-in women.

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Hebra Gemilut Hasadim

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Spanish and Portuguese Jews - 2

The Jewish calendar has a different start year (hence the "5425 - 1665") 3,76...

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Dr C. Skerry

Dr C. Skerry

Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.

Person, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Sir Parker Morris

Sir Parker Morris

Sir George Parker Morris was Westminster's Town Clerk in 1951. 1960 founded the charity HACT. He led the Parker Morris Committee which drew up an influential 1961 report on housing space standards ...

Person, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Caroline Chisholm

Caroline Chisholm

Philanthropist, "The Emigrants' Friend". Born Caroline Jones near Northampton. She followed her husband to India where she became involved in the welfare of the British women there. She carried on ...

Person, Philanthropy, Social Welfare, Australia, India

1 memorial
Settlements

Settlements

The settlement movement was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in England and the United States. Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society ...

Concept, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Henry Sterry

Henry Sterry

The Quakers list a Henry Sterry born 1803 in the parish of St George the Martyr, Southwark and a Henry Sterry (1803-1869) was included in the group portrait of 'The Anti-Slavery Society Convention ...

Person, Race Issues, Social Welfare

1 memorial

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Norman R. C. Mountjoy

Norman R. C. Mountjoy

Auxiliary Fireman Norman Richard Charles Mountjoy was born on 5 March 1911 in Brockley, London, the son of George Mountjoy (1885-1948) and Lily Mountjoy née Deex (1895-1954). The 1911 census shows ...

Person, Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
E. S. Molyneux

E. S. Molyneux

Surbiton man killed serving in WW1.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial