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  Thomas John Barnardo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas John Barnardo (4 July 1845 19 September 1905), English philanthropist, and founder and director of homes for destitute children, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1845.
Barnardo died of angina pectoris in London on 19 September 1905.
Barnardo was the author of many books dealing with the charitable work to which he devoted his life.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_John_Barnardo   (743 words)

  
 BARNARDO - LoveToKnow Article on BARNARDO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Perhaps the most useful of all the varied work instituted by Barnardo is the emigration system, by which means thousands of boys and girls have been sent to British colonies, chiefly to Canada, where there are distributing centres at Toronto and Winnipeg, and an industrial farm of some 8ooo acres near Russell in Manitoba.
Barnardo laid great stress on the religious teaching of the children under his care.
Barnardo died of angina pectoris in London on the 19th of September 1905.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BARNARDO.htm   (711 words)

  
 Dr Thomas John Barnardo: homes, schools and other works
Born in Dublin in 1845, the son of a furrier, Thomas John Barnardo's childhood is somewhat blurred.
Thomas Barnardo settled close to the hospital in east London (his first lodgings were at 30 Coburn Street, Stepney) in 1866 - although he does not appear to have begun his studies until 1867 (Wagner 1979).
Thomas Barnardo was accused of 'spiriting' children away to Canada against the wishes of their parents (Hitchman 1966: 65) - and there were a number of court battles - and considerable concern within the Roman Catholic press that Dr. Barnardo's efforts in this, and other areas, were directed at converting Catholic children.
www.infed.org /thinkers/barnardo.htm   (5169 words)

  
 Thomas John Barnardo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Thomas John Barnardo (1845 1905) English philanthropist and founder and director of homes destitute children was born at Dublin Ireland in 1845.
What was considered the useful of all the varied work instituted Barnardo was the emigration system by which thousands of boys and girls have been to British colonies chiefly to Canada where there were distributing centres at Toronto and Winnipeg and an industrial farm of some acres near Russell in Manitoba.
Barnardo died of angina pectoris in London on the 19th of 1905.
www.freeglossary.com /Thomas_John_Barnardo   (716 words)

  
 Barnardo's - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Barnardo, Thomas John (1845-1905), philanthropist and founder of homes for destitute orphan children.
Thomas John Barnardo was born in Dublin, the...
Barnardo's, charity working in child welfare to aid children and young people, and their families.
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 Thomas John Barnardo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Barnardo died of angina pectoris[For more info, click on this link] in London on the 19th of September 1905.
Maud gwendolen syrie barnardo was the daughter of thomas john barnardo the founder of the barnardos charity for destitute children....
Barnardos is a united kingdom based charity founded by doctor thomas john barnardo in 1866 to care for vulnerable children and young people....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/thomas_john_barnardo.htm   (2122 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Gallery | Barnardo's index
Barnardo was later accused of setting up the pictures in a court case in 1877.
Barnardo admitted to not always using a child who was destitute as a model and sometimes exaggerating their appearances to get across the "wider" truth about the class of children he wanted to help.
Barnardo's defended its decision to use such shocking images in the campaign, arguing that there was public and governmental complacency about child prostitution that needed to be shook up.
www.guardian.co.uk /gall/0,8542,803211,00.html   (257 words)

  
 Dr Thomas Barnardo
Thomas Barnardo was a young medical student when he started caring for the poor in 1867 he was dealing with over 16 deaths a night with the Cholera epidemic that was prevalent in the East end.
Thomas had left the 300 bed London hospital to care for the poor of the East End.
The Dr, was given to Thomas Barnardo by those that loved him and respected his work, prior to him achieving the title in1876.
www.goldonian.org /barn_ardo.htm   (678 words)

  
 History of Barnardo's and Dr Barnardo, victorian Britain, Britain 1845-1900, state of society in Victorian Britain, ...
When Thomas John Barnardo was born in Dublin in 1845 no one could have predicted that he would become one of the most famous men in Victorian Britain.
The London in which Thomas Barnardo arrived in 1866 was a city struggling to cope with the effects of the Industrial Revolution.
Thomas Barnardo strongly believed that families were the best place to bring up children and he established the first fostering scheme when he boarded out children to respectable families in the country.
www.barnardos.org.uk /AboutBarnardos/History   (560 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The echoes of Barnardo's altered imagery
This is Barnardo's "Stolen Childhood" series, and the images are calculated to shock the public and the government into facing up to what it claims is the ignored scandal of child prostitution.
Some of Barnardo's accusers felt the images were indecent and sexually provocative, in displaying the bare limbs and bodies of the children.
In July 1877, Barnardo admitted in court the artistic license he took with the photography, claiming that he never intended to make particular portraits but rather wanted to depict individuals as representative of their "class".
www.guardian.co.uk /child/story/0,7369,803756,00.html   (935 words)

  
 SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Society | Child poverty adverts banned
Barnardo's, the children's charity, was forced to axe a pre-Christmas advertising campaign yesterday after the Advertising Standards Authority ruled the content to be too shocking.
The ASA said: "The authority acknowledged the serious message of the advertisements, but nevertheless considered the advertisers had used shocking images to attract attention and that the photographs were likely to cause serious or widespread offence." It told the advertisers not to repeat the ads.
Barnardo's said it had taken care before launching the campaign to get the material vetted by the copy advice team of the committee of advertising practice, the body which drew up the ASA's code.
society.guardian.co.uk /campaigning/story/0,8150,1103491,00.html   (510 words)

  
 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Thomas John Barnardo
Gwendoline Maud Syrie Barnardo (10 July 1879 - 25 July 1955), born in Hackney, England, was a daughter of Thomas John Barnardo the founder of the Barnardos charity for destitute children.
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www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Thomas-John-Barnardo   (1945 words)

  
 Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
In 1870, with the aid of the 7th earl of Shaftesbury, he opened a boys' home, the first of his famous Dr. Barnardo Homes.
There are presently over 100 homes in Britain and others in Australia and Canada; in England, the homes have moved away from a strictly Christian image to better serve a multicultural population.
Barnardo was instrumental in securing the passage (1891) of parliamentary legislation for child welfare.
www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:Barnardo   (124 words)

  
 Ireland's OWN: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Barnardo made it his crusade to rescue street children.
The son of a furrier, Barnardo was educated at St. Patrick’s Cathedral Grammar School.
By the time of Barnardo’s death, there were nearly 8,000 children in the 96 homes he had established.
irelandsown.net /barnardo.html   (186 words)

  
 Who was Dr Barnardo? in The AnswerBank: People & Places
Thomas John Barnardo was born in Dublin on 4 July, 1845.
Barnardo told him to go home because his mother would be worried.
Thomas Barnardo died on 19 September, 1905, by which time nearly 8,000 children were living in his residential homes, more than 4,000 were boarded out, and 18,000 had been sent to Canada and Australia.
www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article1782.html   (524 words)

  
 Barnardo's around the world
Thomas John Barnardo began his work with homeless and destitute children in the East End of London in 1866.
He was an Irishman whose personal Christian faith inspired him to respond to the needs of the nineteenth century's disabled and disadvantaged children by rescuing them from their impoverished surroundings and caring for them in foster and residential homes.
Barnardos in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and the UK share a common name and heritage.
www.barnardos.com   (130 words)

  
 The Dr. Bernardo Home
Barnardo had learned that a poor boy whose flaming red hair had earned him the name of "Carrots", had been unable to enter the home he had established for waifs and strays because there was no more room.
Barnardo's, Tanners Lane, Barkingside, Ilford, Essex, IG6 1QG, reg.
In 1900, Dr Barnardo visited Canada himself for the third time and from the Farm at Russell in September of that year he wrote to his wife “You would be charmed with the prospect here …..
www.russellmb.com /history/hist1.htm   (1449 words)

  
 Dr Barnardo Public Funeral
It was left as Dr Thomas Barnardo had expressed wish that his body was to be carried to the grave by such of his friends at the Edinburgh Castle and at Stepney Causeway, as should volunteer for this last service.
Thomas Barnardo's coffin was only one of two coffins to be carried on a underground train.
On the front face of the pedestal is a portrait medallion of Dr. Thomas Barnardo, and at the base are seated three children in bronze, that are almost life size.
www.goldonian.org /barnardo/drb_funeral.htm   (1034 words)

  
 Barnardo, Thomas John on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
BARNARDO, THOMAS JOHN [Barnardo, Thomas John], 1845-1905, British social reformer.
The man who gave kids their only chance of a childhood; A hundred years after the death of Dr Thomas Barnardo, children are still reaping the benefit of his legacy of care.(Features)
Reviving Dangerous Davies; After 26 novels and five non-fiction books, Leslie Thomas has now seen his most famous creation transferred to the small screen.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Barnardo.asp   (388 words)

  
 GROUP A   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Thomas John Barnardo was born in Dublin in 1845.
In 1870 Thomas John Barnardo opened his first home for boys in Stepney Causeway, an 11-year old boy called John Somers (nicknamed “Carrots”) was turned away because the shelter was completely full.
However, Thomas Barnardo  accepted any child and said children deserved the best possible start in life whatever their back ground.
www.lyng.norfolk.sch.uk /victorians/E.2a.htm   (524 words)

  
 sh: Famous People 1869-1969 - Brooke Bond Tea Cards 50 Stories of the greatest Britons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Barnardo determined to rescue these children, and soon founded his first 'home of refuge' in Stepney, where children were given a home and trained for a trade.
John was a fiery personality with a passion for independence and personal liberty, which he expressed in his paintings,.especially those of gipsies.
Thomas Beecham asked for piano lessons at six, studied music at school and university, and at 20 became famous when, through a great conductor's absence, he conducted the Halle orchestra.
www.whom.co.uk /squelch/famous.htm   (5071 words)

  
 Barnardo's | uksponsorship.com - 7.3.2003 | sponsorship | UK | children | charity | cause-related | care
Thomas John Barnardo set up a schoool for poor children in the East End in 1867, and opened his first home for boys three years later.
It's now 30 years since Barnardo's stopped running homes for orphans, but the charity's work is still based on values inherent in the work done by its founder.
Today, Barnardo's is the U.K.'s largest children's charity, helping nearly 100,000 children through over 300 projects throughout the U.K. Barnardo's works with the most vulnerable children and young people in society, to transform their lives and fulfil their potential.
www.uksponsorship.com /a445.htm   (160 words)

  
 Today in History - September 19
The first Barnardo Home for such children was opened in London in 1867.
By means of a successful emigration system Barnardo sent thousands of children to the British colonies, especially to the cities of Toronto and Winnipeg, Canada, as distributing centers, and to an industrial farm (8,000 acres near Russell, Manitoba).
Barnardo emphasized the religious training of the children in his homes but sought to have each child brought up in the religion of the parents.
chi.lcms.org /history/tih0919.htm   (972 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - nil and others
John Adrian Hope, son of Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow and Doreen Maud Milner, on 21 July 1948.
Thomas John Barnardo and Syrie Louise Elmslie, on 27 May 1917 in Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.A. He and Gwendolyn Maud Syrie Barnardo were divorced in 1929.
     Gwendolyn Maud Syrie Barnardo was born in 1879.
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 Articles
Barnardo, who ran a training school for destitute children in London, was influenced by Macpherson to launch his own child migrant program in 1882.
Barnardo was also an early devotee of the camera and many of the children were photographed.
According to Lorente, Barnardo relished his celebrity status and was a talented showman with a flair for public relations.
www.orphantrainriders.com /HomeChild/HomeArticles.html   (5361 words)

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