... WILL MISS OCTAVIA HILL. ! Miss Octavia Hill'« will has ben projed at -£'0 toss with J«t personalty £8,31 a. She directed- li«« trustee to otter her portrait by Sargent the National portrait Gallery. ...

... MISS OCTAVIA HILL DEAD NOTABLE WORKER FOR THE POOR OF regret to announca the death of Miss Octavia Hill, a pioneer housing and social reform in London and one of the etaunchest porkers for the betterment of the poor. With the help John Raskin, Miss Hill ...

... Council of Women at the Guildhall on- Tuesday afternoon, in an address by Miss Hort, a housing manager at Cheltenham for the Octavia Hill scheme. Miss Hort maintained that tlie slum landloidis were the authors the slums. the commencement of the meeting, which ...

... Wells, was an authoress with many plays and poems to her credit. including a mystery play, Eager Heart. She assisted Miss Octavia Hill for some time, and later studied kindergarten methods being the pioneer in establishing them in England. In 1936 she was ...

... Association of Grocers' Assistants, in favour of the HiU which proposes to curtail the hours during which Shops are open. Miss Octavia Hill strongly condemned Sunday trading, but the chairman stated that in view of objections which had been raised, the clause ...

... as a fellow-member with Miss Cook of the Association which carries on Octavia Hill's work, one rejoices that Bath has so successful scheme being. But it due to the memory Octavia Hill that one of her disciple* should point out the fact that over sixty years ...

... habitation, and while townplanning is more necessary than ever, there is still great room for such work as was done by Miss Octavia Hill under the inspiration of Ruskin. ...

... Every dwelling, said Miss Allen, whether palace or caravan, needed management. the latter half of the last century Miss Octavia Hill pointed out and she was the first to do so—that methods of management which were perfectly all right for properties with ...

... MISS RACHEL BASKETT. Important Appointment at Liverpool Miss Rachel Baskett, of Combe Down, who was trained nnder the Octavia Hill system of women house property management on the Ecclesiastical Commissioners' Westminster estate of 480 houses, and who ...

... Reform Association, though I shall be unable to attend the meeting.” A paper by Miss Florence Davenport-Hill was given. She related that Miss Octavia Hill, when engaged in the improvement of the dwellings of the poor, deeired to purchase some miserable and ...

... t of neu members. As will be known to most of your readers the Trust was founded in 1895 by those three pioneers. Miss Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Canon Rawnsley, whose main objects were, in an age of industrialisation, to educate public opinion ...

... ee, consisting of Sir U. Kay-ShutOeworth, Sir Curtis M, Lampson, Mr H. R. Brand. M.P.; Ernest Hart, Mr T. Hughes, Miss Octavia Hill, Mr W. M, Wilkinson, and Mr R. D. Wilson be appointed for the purpose of collecting and circulating amongst the general ...