biography
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Barnett, Samuel A(ugustus)
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| lived:
| (1844–1913)
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| biography:
| Anglican clergyman and social reformer, born in Bristol, SW England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and in 1873 went to a Whitechapel parish where his sympathy with the poor of London was aroused. In 1884 he founded Toynbee Hall in Whitechapel, and went on to advocate other educational reforms, poor relief measures, and universal pensions. In 1894 he became Canon of Bristol, and from 1906 was Canon of Westminster. |
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