Octavia Hill (3 December 1838 – 13 August 1912) was an English social reformer, whose main concern was the welfare of the inhabitants of cities, especially...

Value, £105.* Patron, Mrs. W. St. John Mildmay. The church is good. Octavia Hill, a social reformer, philanthropist, artist, writer and co-founder of...

and the campaigner Octavia Hill. This succeeded in raising the required £300,000, and in 1899 the East Park Estate and Parliament Hill Fields were added...

England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Trust was founded in 1895 by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley to "promote the permanent preservation...

"Hill, Octavia (1838–1912)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 1 November 2010 Mann, Peter H., "Octavia...

Maass (Lutheran Church) Fachtna of Rosscarbery Florence Nightingale, Octavia Hill (Lutheran Church) Herulph Hippolytus of Rome Jeremy Taylor (Anglican...

other pioneers in this field, including Octavia Hill and Hardwicke Rawnsley. After acting as adviser to Hill in her campaigns to save Hampstead Heath...

Octavia is a feminine given name of Latin origin meaning eight that derives from the Octavia gens. It has seen steady use in the United States, where it...

amelioration. One of his first actions was to support the housing work of Octavia Hill (originally one of his art pupils): he bought property in Marylebone...

introduced him to Octavia Hill, the pioneer of social housing, and Rawnsley added to his workload the role of rent-collector for Hill's colleague Emma Cons...

schools, literary institutes and working-class clubs. In 1876 her sister Octavia Hill became treasurer. There were numerous branches around the country, generally...

interest. Octavia Hill Birthplace House opened with the purpose of housing items linked to the various philanthropic activities of Octavia Hill and her...

terrace was donated in 1898 by Octavia Hill, one of the founders of the National Trust, who lived at nearby Crockham Hill, and it was one of the National...

initially promised that the families would not have to leave by the OHA (Octavia Hill Association), they were later evicted and it was determined that it would...

He was involved in social work in London slums from 1889 to 1899 with Octavia Hill and her Cadet Battalion, in a model social housing scheme in Red Cross...

commemorate Octavia Hill, one of the Trust's founders. In his 1933 memoir Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell reports that Ide Hill was notorious...

Boyd, Three Victorian Women Who Changed their World: Josephine Butler, Octavia Hill, Florence Nightingale, London: MacMillan (1982). Strachey, Lytton (1918)...

green belt is a policy for controlling urban growth. The term, coined by Octavia Hill in 1875, refers to a ring of countryside where urbanisation will be resisted...

Her commitment to housing improvement and fascination with the work of Octavia Hill is recorded by her daughter Baroness Pentland who wrote in a 1952 biography...

giving votes to women, although he did suggest that the social reformer Octavia Hill serve on the Commission for Working Class Housing. He was also opposed...

of Octavia Hill's birth which was visited at her request by Queen Mary. Lupton collected the material for Moberly Bell's biography of Octavia Hill. The...

Hoole form an early example of one of Octavia Hill’s social housing schemes. The social reformer Octavia Hill is best known for being a co-founder of...

1874, but dropped out just before the election, despite support from Octavia Hill. The context for the end of his political career was the unpopularity...

Reform Influences". Octavia Hill's Birthplace House. Archived from the original on 11 May 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2009. "The Octavia Hill Society" (PDF)....

1889 renowned social reformer Miss Octavia Hill formed the first independent Cadet Battalion in Southwark. Octavia Hill considered strongly that the military...

Bayswater, where she met and helped social activist and housing reformer Octavia Hill. Hill introduced Henrietta to the writings of John Ruskin, as well as many...

Trust decided to acquire the building another founder of the Trust, Octavia Hill, contacted the Society for advice. In her letter she said that they "will...

1843). The Octavia Hill Birthplace House on the South Brink, Wisbech operated by the Octavia Hill Society contains many items belonging to the Hill family...

public ownership, and soon afterwards started the National Trust with Octavia Hill and Robert Hunter. " 'The lake flanked by grass'; 'gres', 'mere'. Early...

Bedford and Royal Holloway Universities, including Helen Gladstone, Octavia Hill, and Alice Gruner, co-founded the Women's University Settlement. The...