biography
pronunciation:
[chizm]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1808–77)
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| biography:
| Social worker and philanthropist, born near Northampton, Northamptonshire, C England, UK. She married an officer in the army of the East India Company, and in 1838 they settled in Windsor, New South Wales. Concerned at the plight of impoverished immigrant women in the colony, she established an office to provide shelter for the new arrivals, then set about finding them work. She persuaded the British government to grant free passage to families of convicts already transported, and established the Family Colonization Loan Society. In 1866 she returned to England. |
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