Fact Sheets Lesson 5 Influential Victorians Thomas Barnardo 1845-1905 Born in Dublin on the 4th July 1845 He worked

as a clerk until converted to Evangelical Christianity in 1862. In 1867, Thomas Barnardo set up a ragged school in the East End In 1870, Barnardo opened his first home for boys in Stepney Causeway By 1878 he had established fifty orphanages in London. By the time Thomas Barnardo died on 19th September, 1905, there were nearly 8,000 children in his residential homes, more than 4,000 were boarded out, and 18,000 had been sent to Canada and Australia. Useful sites http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REbarnardo.htm http://www.barnardos.org.uk/barnardo_s_history.pdf William Booth 1829-1912 Born on 10th April 1829 In 1852 Booth met Catherine Mumford the couple married on 16th June 1855 In 1861, William left the Methodist Church and started preaching to the people on the streets In 1865 William and Catherine founded the Whitechapel Christian Mission in London's East End to help feed and house the poor.

William Booth died on 20th August 1912. Useful sites http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REbooth.htm http://www2.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/www_sakids.nsf/vwsublinks/571C37DAE92015E280257458003D5792? openDocument Lord Shaftesbury (1801-1885) Anthony Ashley Cooper was born on 28th April 1801 In 1833 He proposed that children should work for a maximum of 10 hours a day 1834 the Factory Act was made Law 1842 Coal Mines Act 1851 He became the Earl of Shaftesbury He was also interested in education for working children. He was chairman of the Ragged Schools Union - an organisation that set up over a hundred schools for poor children Useful sites http://www.woodlandsjunior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/victorians/famous.htm http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRashley.htm