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Mary Dendy

British educationist (1855-1933) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 78

Mary Dendy was a British eugenicist and promoter of residential schools for mentally handicapped people, known as institutionalisation. Dendy was the driving force that established a colony for the "feeble-minded".

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Dendy believed in separate development to avoid crime and these people passing their problems on to their children. She joined the Eugenics Education Society.

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United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1855 to 1933 · aged 78