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... 'Octavia Hill ▪ WILLIAM THOMPSON HILL, F.S.A. ■ Lionel Curtis. CH.. in his II foreword to this biography ■ of the remarkable wom,til who founded the Nation, Trust, writes : Octmia I • and Florence Nightingale were the two greatest women of the 19th ...

Published: Wednesday 25 January 1956
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 321 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A TRIBUTE TO MISS OC

... wises the object b Octavia Hill, for the purpose of placing herniae In some sort at the bead of the list of Virtue's Prise. men, and of &acceding to her the rook which she di serves In the whole army of benefactors. Miss Octavia Hill is devotedly attached ...

Published: Thursday 27 November 1890
Newspaper: Flintshire Observer
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 403 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE BILL MISS OCTAVIA HILL OPPOSES

... THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE BILL MISS OCTAVIA HILL OPPOSES. Miss Oetatia Hills addresses to the a letter, in which she say. slicosill be profoundly sorry if woolen suffrage in tiny form is introduced into England. After set iorth her for taking this view , Miss ...

Published: Thursday 21 July 1910
Newspaper: Radnor Express
County: Brecknockshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 67 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WALES 1 Day By a 'J'O-DAY’S thouplit ; secret help is —Octavia Hill. PWO Cardiff Dot discnssinp a frio not

... WALES 1 Day By a 'J'O-DAY’S thouplit ; secret help is —Octavia Hill. PWO Cardiff Dot discnssinp a frio not hiph repntatiui I would not go him a liar.” remark if I saw him walk! Mary-street with Snpphira should I say, There goes party.’ T mountaii thing ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 561 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NATURE A REST-GIVER

... beautiful, and meant that we should live amongst its beauties, and that they skeuld speak peace te us in our daily lives. —Octavia Hill. ...

Published: Thursday 05 May 1904
Newspaper: Welsh Gazette
County: Cardiganshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 59 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

! THE AGED POOR

... Tuesday, Mr C. T. Ritchie presiding, and the Prince of Wales being among the members present. Evidence was given by Miss Octavia Hill, who made suggestions all to the manner in which the aged poor might be made comfortable. Mr Drummond, of the Board of ...

Published: Wednesday 07 June 1893
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 78 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

ITHE AGED POOR

... Tuesday, Mr C. T. Ritohie presiding, and the Prince of Wales being among the members present. Evidence was give,, by Miss Octavia Hill, who made suggestions as to the manner in which the aged poor might be made comfortable. Mr Drummond, of the Board of Trade ...

Published: Wednesday 07 June 1893
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 79 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MARGARET O'BRIEN

... class. It simply recognises the existence of a woman's world and needs. So writes William Thomson Hill in his biography of Octavia Hill Of such a union Octavia Ni.%, the natural leader. When in her early youth she set out to restore self respect to degraded ...

Published: Monday 23 January 1956
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 348 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Weekly Quiz

... are they? 9 Which village in Cornwall has associations with King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table? 10 Who was Octavia Hill? (Answers on Page 5). ...

Published: Friday 30 June 1961
Newspaper: Port Talbot Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 116 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PROGRESSIVE WOMEN

... PROGRESSIVE WOMEN 7.-Miss Octavia Hill and Working-class Dwellings. As interesting as any shilling shocker, and far more instructive and truly entertaining, is a small shilling volume of essays by Miss Octavia Hill on Homes of the London Poor. The ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1894
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1411 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

... the country. T.S. (Cambridge) is informed that it has a rent collecting committee managing property familiarised by Miss Octavia Hill. Death Rates.—Replying to D.T. (Aldershot), the figures for Finsbury, so often quoted, show a death-rate of 39 in one-room ...

Published: Thursday 04 June 1914
Newspaper: Porthcawl News
County: Mid Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 137 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Advertising

... curious incident was related by Mis. Florence Davenport-Hill in a paper read by her at a meeting of the Funeral and Mourning Reform Association, at Church House, on Thurs. day. She said that Miss Octavia Hill, when engaged in the improvement of the dwellings ...