... Thomas Gage Gardiner, C. S. Loch, J. Patten MacDougall, Thomas Hancock Nunn, L. B. Phelps, W. Smart, Helen Bosanquet, and Octavia Hill. ...

... resolved to appoint a woman to manage two large h.msing estates at a salary of about La2oo a year. This is on the lines of the Octavia Hill system of property management, on the working of which by the Westminster City Council a very favourable report had been ...

... 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 ...

... Queen Victoria, translated an English book descriptive of Octavia's work into German about 1876. The result was the formation of the Octavia Hill Verein (Union) in Berlin. IThis was Miss Hill's first link with Conti' nental Europe. Delegates from Germany ...

... nt is given to tenants to regularly put by a portion of their weekly wage. and itrwas always the idea of the late Miss Octavia Hill, that when collecting rent, suggestions for thrift, prudence, and other virtues (that seem in danger of being forgotten) ...

... Jupoa spent the week-end with the ,| Duchess of Kent at Coppins, Tver Books. p. in( . ns Alice, Countess of Athlone, the Octavia Hill Centenary Claridpe’s. London, on X ,‘ r . of the Society of Women to c e Managers. Lord Balfour of l ,'i : will preside ...

... tactful, educated women, to whom the profession of home-making had made a special appeal. The work of that pioneer, Miss Octavia Hill, and of her successors, has achieved even the transformation of slumdwellers into self-respecting communities. This indeed ...

... small bouse property can well managed by educated women acting landlords’ agents was first realised by Miss Octavia Hill. long ago as 1864 Miss Hill experimented with few dilapidated workingclass houses, her aim being so to treat the property that the tenants ...

... H. R. Rossell Wakefield has been Mayor of Maxylebone, London, and was Mr. Long's Committee. Mrs. Sidney Webb and Miss Octavia Hill been prominently associated with Poor-law work, and Mm. Bosanquctis the wife the Professor Moral Philosophy St. Andrew’a ...

... following work* Keneral literature were ordered—Benn (E. F.)» Art Overland Trek from India;*’ Mall (H. F.), Ibo World Soul:” Hill (Octavia), Life Told H**r letters Peel (Hooourable G.)» ** The ' Reformer*Smith (Alex.), “A Summer in Sky stock (Ralph), Confemions ...

... Loch. Mr. J. Patten Macdougall, Mr. Thomas Hancock Nun. the Rev. L. R. Phelps. Mr. W. Smart, Mrs. Helen Bosanquat, and Octavia Hill. The minority report is signed by Prebendary Wakefield, Mr. F. Chandler. Mr. George Lanabury, and Mrs. Sidney Webb. A ...

... a time when the idea of appointing a woman to a Royal Commission was thought monstrous, even though the woman was Miss Octavia Hill, and the subject to be investigated the housing question. In these days Royal Commission after Royal Commission is appointed ...