Philanthropy in 1900 London: University Settlements

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Arthur H. Beavan continued his look at philanthropy with this treatment of the Oxford and Cambridge settlements in poor parts of London. This extract is from Imperial London, first published in 1901:

Most remarkable of these philanthropic efforts are the Settlements, as they are called, where educated men and women, putting theory into practice, take up their abode with the poor, striving by force of example to raise the moral tone of the district in which they have settled.

There is the Oxford House University Settlement, Mape Street, Bethnal Green; Toynbee Hall, 28, Commercial Street; the Incorporated Mansfield House University Settlement, in Canning Town, which provides lodging accommodation, and has proved a great boon to the dockers, as shown by the fact that, save in periods of great scarcity of work, the Settlement has always been filled; University Hall, in Gordon Square, which owes its inception to Mrs. Humphry Ward, and provides a home for young men engaged in social work at their Hall in Marchmont Street, a neglected district of St Pancras; Newman House, Kennington Park Road, the Roman Catholic University Settlement; the Passmore Edwards Settlement at Tavistock Place, St Pancras, initiated by Mrs. Humphry Ward and the generous Mr. Passmore Edwards.

Across the river is the Browning Hall, York Street, Walworth; also the Bermondsey University Settlement in Farncombe Street, Jamaica Road.

The University of Cambridge has taken charge of the vast population on the south of the Thames, as Oxford has done in the East End.

Cambridge House and Hall is their headquarters in a district said to present the largest area of unbroken poverty in any European city; and, as in a semi-circle, South London is apportioned to various colleges; for instance, St. John's works in Walworth; Caius, in Battersea; Clare, in Rotherhithe; Corpus Christi, in Christ Church district, Camberwell; Pembroke, in Newington; and - chief of them all - Trinity, in St. George's Park, Camberwell.

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