Thomas John Barnardo Biography. His father was of Spanish origin, his mother being an Englishwoman. With the intention of qualifying for medical missionary work in China, he studied medicine at the London hospital, and later at Paris and Edinburgh, where he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
His medical work in the east end of London during the epidemic of cholera in first drew his attention to the great numbers of homeless and destitute children in the cities of England.
The object for which these institutions were started was to search for and to receive waifs and strays, to feed, clothe, educate, and, where possible, to give an industrial training suitable to each child. The principle adopted was that of free and immediate admission; there were no restrictions of age or sex, religion or nationality; the physically robust and the incurably diseased were alike received, the one necessary qualification being destitution.
A few years later, since , more than one hundred of homes in Britain, Australia and Canada formed the National Association for the integration of children left destitute. In , date of death of Barnardo, was about 8, children in them. Page with information on the humanitarian work of Thomas Barnardo in English. Barnardo of Stepney: the father of nobody's children. Barnardo was so moved by the sight that he decided to do something about it.
In , Thomas Barnardo opened a home for boys in Stepney Causeway, providing shelter for orphans and destitute children. During his life Barnardo continued to open institutions that helped to care for poor children. By his death in it is estimated that his homes and schools cared for over children in more than 90 different locations.
Have a look at their website. Thomas John Barnardo 4 July — 19 September was a philanthropist and founder and director of homes for poor children, born in Dublin. Barnardo was born in Dublin, Ireland, in He was the fourth of five children one died in childbirth of John Michaelis Barnardo, a furrier, and his second wife, Abigail, an Englishwoman and member of the Plymouth Brethren. In the early s, John emigrated from Hamburg to Dublin, where he established a business; he married twice and fathered seven children.
The Barnardo origins are uncertain; the family "traced its origin to Venice, followed by conversion to the Lutheran Church in the sixteenth century", but others have claimed German Jewish roots for them. With the intention of qualifying for medical missionary work in China, Barnardo studied medicine at the London Hospital, and later at Paris and Edinburgh, where he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
The evangelical work he carried on alongside his medical studies in London served to make him aware of the great numbers of homeless and destitute children adrift in the cities of England. From then on the workload of his humanitarian venture steadily increased until, at the time of his death in , he had established district homes, besides mission branches, throughout the United Kingdom. The object for which these institutions were started was to search for and to receive waifs and strays, to feed, clothe and educate them.
The system under which the institution was carried on is broadly as follows: the infants and younger girls and boys were chiefly "boarded out" in rural districts; girls above fourteen years of age were sent to the industrial training homes, to be taught useful domestic occupations; boys above seventeen years of age were first tested in labour homes and then placed in employment at home, sent to sea, or emigrated;.
Besides the various branches necessary for the foregoing work, there were also, among others, the following institutions: a rescue home for girls in serious danger, a convalescent seaside home and a hospital for the terribly sick.
Barnardo and his wife, Syrie, were given a home in Barkingside as a wedding gift.
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