Octavia Hill was an English social reformer and founder of the National Trust. Her main concern was the welfare of the inhabitants of cities, especially London, in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Early influences on Octavia Hill. Top: John Ruskin and Thomas Southwood Smith. Below: F.D. Maurice and Henry Mayhew
A Marylebone slum in the nineteenth century
Wicken Fen acquired by the National Trust in 1899
Hampstead Heath saved by Octavia Hill and others
Hill in 1881
Plaque in Red Cross Garden in South LondonWriters born in the 1830s 6
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Octavia Hill was an English social reformer and founder of the National Trust. Her main concern was the welfare of the inhabitants of cities, especially London, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Born into a family of radical thinkers and reformers with a strong commitment to alleviating poverty, she herself grew up in straitened circumstances owing to the financial failure of her father's businesses. Home educated by her mother, she worked from the age of 14 for the welfare of working people.
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