... “Times says—Widespread regret will bo felt at tin* announcement of the death on Tuesday her house in arylebone road of Miss Octavia Hill, who deserves to remembered as one of the most practical and ost energetic of women philanthropists her dav, aged 74. Inspired ...

... people are being drawn into the struggle. Among the quiet ladies who have reluctantly been drawn into the fray is Miss Octavia Hill. No woman has a better right speak or to be listened to with respect. There has been far too much vasillation and playing ...

... Rev. L. R. Phelps, Professor William Smart, Rev. W. Russell Wakefield, Mrs Bernard Bosanquet, Mrs. Sidney Webb, and Miss Octavia Hill. It is understood that the name of the secretary of the Commission will shortly be abnounced, and an early first meeting ...

... AGAINST WOMAN SUFFRAGE MISS OCT AVIA HILL’S PROTEST The Times publishes letter from Miss Octavia Hill on women and the suffra*®, in which she says:—l am sorry to enter into the political world, even so far write about the question of women’s suffrage ...

... enjoyed their fair measure of sunshine and their full mead of fresh- air. I supplemented this with an extract from Miss Octavia Hill, a pioneer of Garden City development, in which she said: We all need space : unless we have it we cannot reach that sense ...

... interest as would attach to, nay, the doing of Walter Savage Mayfair. The failure of a biographer attempting the life of Octavia Hill irom tier letters only is evitable, in that hex life was dee is, not words The difficulty of collecting correspondence ...

... of help to your ccerespondent. In ihe report by the Poor Law Commissioners, three of whom were women—i.e., the late Mi.. Octavia Hill , Mn. Bernard IlZenaquet, and Mrs. Sydney Webb—the opinion ts given that the hareem of women'. wages in the sweated industries ...

... should have votes (hear, hear). . Rev. Robin said that one way approaching the housing question waa originated bv Miss Octavia Hill (applausel. whoso book Homes of the London Poor.” was a valuable work. The plan was based idea of taking existing tenement ...

... Lord George Hamilton, Lord Bishop of Ross, ail tonr officers, and eight other Commwsioners, including Mr. C. Loch. Miss Octavia Hill, and Mrs. Helen Bosanquct. minority report is signed the Rev. Prebendary Russell Wakefield, .Mr. Chandler, Mr. O. Lanebury ...

... or failure, whether we admire his methods publicity and advertisement or prefer those of that unobtrusive philanthropist Octavia Hill, who has likewise passed from among us this time —whether wi* think the Salvation Army’s dogmatic profession of faith, ...

... his accomplished wife, who, as Miss Henrietta Rowland, bad worked with that other great practical philanthropist, Miss Octavia Hill. Happily, Mrs. Barnett survives to carry on, we trust for many years, the work in which she and her husband were so much ...

... an organisation which could, if given land or buildings, look after and care for it. So it was that the philanthropist Octavia Hill, the solicitor, Sir Robert Hunter, and the energetic preserver of the past, Canon Rawnsley, met together and founded the ...