Beschreibung
Compiled by Frances C Leighton-Childe, with her signature at the front of the book this is her personal copy of both hers and her Fathers papers and others, relating to the Poor Law, and other subjects of Social Reform and personal letters. Her Father being Sir Baldwyn Leighton, 8th Baronet, of Loton Park near Alerbury Shropshire, (also spelt Baldwin ) he was educated at Eton College and Christ Church Oxford who was a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons, Member of Parliament for South Shropshire. The contents of the book are as follows, ? 1/ a four page extract from the "Charity Organisation Review" in 1875 of a review of "The Letters and Speeches of Sir Baldwin Leighton" edited by his daughter Frances C Childe, 2/ A signed typed thank you letter from C. S. Loch of the Charity Organisation Society dated 17th April 1899 to Frances C Childe for receipt of her book on her father's speeches, 3/ a four page hand written letter to Frances Childe from a S. Mason of Whitton Rectory of Tenbury in Worcestershire on Vagrancy dated July 12th 1907, 4/ a two page hand written letter dated 28th February 1897 signed Mrs Baldwyn Childe, 5/ another two page hand written letter dated 13th April 1899 from Mrs Childe about her father, 6/ the actual 76 page book titled "Extracts from letters & Speeches of Sir Baldwin Leighton M.P for South Shropshire, edited by His Daughter Frances C. Childe, Privately Printed for the author by Adnitt and Naunton of Shrewsbury in 1875, within this work is inserted a one page hand written page of notes on Edward John Eyre, the Ex-Governor of Jamaica, 7/ a 47 page paper titled "Report of the Progress of the ATCHAM UNION From its formation to the year 1890 incorporating reports made in the years 1838 and 1856 by the late Sir Baldwyn Leighton, Bart, compiled by the present chairman J. Bowen Jones, printed by W G Napier of Mardol, Shrewsbury, 8/ a 42 page report on the Shropshire Poor Law Conference held in Shrewsbury on Thursday October 21st 1875 which was presided over by the chairman, The Earl of Bradford, with a full list of those in attendance, including Sir Baldwyn Leighton? 9/ Tract No1 of the National Union of Women Workers of Great Britain and Ireland, titled "Out Relief" by Mary Clifford (The Poor Law Guardian of Barton Regis, stated second edition dated January 1898 (14pp) ? 10/ a paper read to the Hampshire Poor Law Conference at Winchester dated May 7th 1901 titled "The English Country Labourer and the Poor Law in the Reign of Queen Victoria" by John Martineau, published by Skeffington & Son of Piccadilly London in 1901. Inserted within the paper is a cutting from a newspaper containing an article titled "A Model Poor Law Administration, A Sane System, 11/ a six page paper titled "Thrift and the Poor Law, a paper read at the Folkestone Church Congress, Thursday October 6th 1892" by W. Layton Lowndes, printed by Bemrose & Sons of Derby? 12/ a 16 page paper by Sir Baldwyn Leighton titled "Pauperization; Cause and Cure" being two papers read at the Social Science Congress at Leeds in October 1871, the paper was printed by Messers Sandford of Shrewsbury in 1871, and is signed on the title page by his daughter Frances Baldwyn. Affixed to the last page of the paper is a newspaper article titled "The Farm Labourer" extracted from the Shrewsbury Journal on August 31st 1872?, 13/ a 3 page paper by Sir Baldwyn Leighton titled "Child Life in our Great Cities" being an address delivered at the Wolverhampton Church Congress, published by Bemrose & Sons of Derby, pasted to the last two blank pages of this paper is an extracted article titled "Fiscal Reform" by Sir Baldwyn Leighton of Loton Park,? 14/ a 55 page paper, being issue number 12 of "The Charity Organisation Review" for December 1897, containing a number of papers including one on Old Age Pensions by John Martineau along with two newspaper clippings on that subject, 15/ a 10 page paper titled "The Charity Organisation Re. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000822
Verkäufer kontaktieren
Diesen Artikel melden
Bibliografische Details
Titel: SHROPSHIRE AND THE POOR LAW , and other ...
Verlag: Adnitt and Naunton,& Messers Sandford, W. B. Walker , Bunny and Evans of Shrewsbury Skeffington & Son, Bemrose & Sons, &c, Shrewsbury, Derby, Chester, London
Erscheinungsdatum: 1875
Einband: Contemporary Hardcover Binding
Zustand: Good
Signiert: Signed & Inscribed By Author
Auflage: First Edition
