Dr. Thomas Barnardo

"Thomas John Barnardo (1845-1905) is a classically Victorian figure - evangelical, entrepreneurial and philanthropic. His crusade to 'rescue children from the streets' was one the best known social interventions in the last half of the nineteenth century. As Williams (1953: vii) has put it:

"In the short space of forty years, starting without patronage or influence of any kind, this man had raised the sum of three and a quarter million pounds sterling, established a network of Homes of various kinds such as never existed before for the reception, care and training of homeless, needy and afflicted children, and had rescued no fewer than sixty thousand destitute boys and girls."

• Smith, M. K. (2002) 'Thomas John Barnardo ('the Doctor')', the encyclopedia of informal education, Last update: February 14, 2004, at this link.

-- ChrisLehrich^? - 29 Dec 2004

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