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    Charles James Booth (30 March 1840 – 23 November 1916) was a British shipowner, Comtean positivist, social researcher, and reformer, best known for his...
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  • Tasmania Charles Booth (social reformer) (1840–1916), British philanthropist Frederick Charles Booth (1890–1960), Victoria Cross winner Charles G. Booth (1896–1949)...
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    Life and Labour of the People in London was a multi-volume book by Charles Booth which provided a survey of the lives and occupations of the working class...
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  • Catherine Booth Booth, granddaughter of Catherine Booth Charles Booth (social reformer) (1840–1916), English social researcher and reformer Charles G. Booth (1896–1949)...
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  • uk/old-new-london/vol2/pp496-513 [accessed 20 August 2017]. Charles Booth (social reformer)'s poverty map: http://booth.lse.ac.uk/map/17/-0.1144/51.5204/100/0 F. Youngs...
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    William Booth (10 April 1829 – 20 August 1912) was an English Methodist preacher who, along with his wife, Catherine, founded the Salvation Army and became...
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    Street from Lincoln' Inn Fields by James Lawson Stewart c. 1890. Charles Booth (social reformer); Descriptive map of London poverty, 1889 No. 1, Sardinia Street...
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    gold-coloured neighbourhoods by Hyde Park — documented in Booth's poverty map as socially distinct from the generally low-to-mid income central, neighbouring...
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    so young, "wholly unblemished" servants could have a friend of a higher social class with whom to meet, read, sew, take refreshment. Senior, with Caroline...
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  • Booth was born on 22 September 1877 in London, the son of the social reformer Charles Booth and his wife Mary Catherine Macaulay. From 1936 to 1937, he...
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    movement in London. In 1927, Clara Collet wrote that in Lambert, the reformer Charles Booth "seems to have found a kindred soul". He was born at Chertsey, Surrey...
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    which the First Reform Bill represented: its purpose was to promote "the social intercourse of the reformer of the United Kingdom. The Reform Club's building...
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  • (1828–1906), social reformer John Calvin (1509–1564), reformer Wilson Carlile (1847–1942), founder of the Church Army Edith Cavell (1865–1915), nurse Charles I (1600–1649)...
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    there in social issues led to Maud’s interest for social welfare and social service. In 1882, Charlesworth became a companion of Miss Catherine Booth in organizing...
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  • (born 1971), American author Charles Henry Parkhurst (1842–1933), clergyman and social reformer in New York City Charles Percy Parkhurst (1913–2008),...
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    who built Holland House. Notable former residents include the social reformer Charles Booth who lived in the street from 1875 to 1890. "Grenville Place"...
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  • authority on the work of the social researcher and reformer Charles Booth, and set up the Charles Booth Centre for the History of Social Investigation at the...
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    1890 book written by William Booth in which Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, proposed a number of social reforms to improve the living conditions...
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    The Booths had eight children: Bramwell Booth, Ballington Booth, Kate Booth, Emma Booth, Herbert Booth, Marie Booth, Evangeline Booth and Lucy Booth, and...
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  • was he a charismatic preacher seeking rapid social change like Kamwana. He was a moderate social reformer who strongly criticised the inequalities of...
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    Joseph Rowntree (philanthropist) (category British social reformers)
    Rowntree is perhaps best known for being a champion of social reform, partner and friend of Charles Booth, and his time as a chocolatier at family business...
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  • the Faith, 1667 13 Florence Nightingale, Nurse, Social Reformer, 1910 13 Octavia Hill, Social Reformer, 1912 14 Maximilian Kolbe, Friar, Martyr, 1941 15...
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    The social investigations of Charles Booth and Seebohm Rowntree. These investigations helped change attitudes towards the causes of poverty. Booth carried...
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    (1898–1973), baseball player Ballington Booth (1857–1940), social reformer (Volunteers of America) Maud Booth (1865–1948), co-founder of Volunteers of...
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    Josephine Butler (category British social reformers)
    (née Grey; 13 April 1828 – 30 December 1906) was an English feminist and social reformer in the Victorian era. She campaigned for women's suffrage, the right...
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    Toynbee Hall (category Social welfare charities based in the United Kingdom)
    the tight living conditions. Charles Booth, another social reformer, mapped London according to eight different social classes, finding that around 70%...
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    the sociologist Auguste Comte, and social researchers, such as Charles Booth, contributed to the emergence of social policymaking in the first industrialised...
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  • Thomson - golfer Henry Walkerden - cricketer Frederick Oswald Barnett - social reformer Ruth Hope Crow - political activist John Curtin - 14th Prime Minister...
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  • Denis O'Brien (2014). "Subsidiarity and Solidarity". In Booth, Phillip (ed.). Catholic social teaching and the market economy. The Institute of Economic...
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    political organization called the National Union for Social Justice. Its platform called for monetary reforms, nationalization of major industries and railroads...
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