Spent his life helping vulnerable children.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Jim Gaffney
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Jim Gaffney
Jim Gaffney, 1941 - 2002. Jim spent his life helping vulnerable children. H...
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Priscilla Wakefield
Born Priscilla Bell in Tottenham. Quaker philanthropist and author of feminist economics, scientific subjects, travel, children's non-fiction. Best known book was 'The Juvenile Travellers' which ha...
Person, Children, Gender Issues, Race Issues, Social Welfare
1 memorial
Captain Thomas Coram
Born Lyme Regis, Dorset, where there is now a commemorative tower. Pioneer in the cause of child welfare. He became a Captain in the Merchant Navy trading between England and America. For several ...
3 memorials
David Copperfield Children's Library
Founded by the American Rev. J. Brett Langstaff. The picture is from 1947. The New York Times, 19 March 1922 carries a letter reporting on a performance of a play for the benefit of this library....
1 memorial
E. H. Shepard
Painter and illustrator, most famously of Winnie the Pooh. Ernest Howard was born 55 Springfield Road, St John's Wood. His art school nickname, Kipper, stayed with him for life. Served in WW1 e...
1 memorial
Queenie Isabella White
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 1. Buried in grave 3 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
1 memorial
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