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Charlotte Toynbee

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in 1841. Her parents were Charlotte Maria (born Hodgskins) and William Atwood. Her father was a linguist working abroad so consequentially she spent a lot of time out of the country gaining her education in French schools until her family returned to the UK. Her Anglican and Liberal family then lived
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Toynbee looked after the management, and contributed to, the finances of Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) for forty years. LMH supplied a home for women students as they studied. However she did not approve of women being given the vote and in 1895 she was one of the LMH council members who successfully
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Lectures on the Industrial Revolution of the 18th Century in England, Popular Addresses, Notes and Other Fragments, by the Late Arnold Toynbee ... [Edited by C.M. Toynbee and Alfred Milner.] Together with a Short Memoir of B. Jowett ... Fourth Edition, with Appendix [: "Progress and
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for thirty years as part of a system which she wanted replaced. She said that it was impossible to judge the level of help that the poor needed and it was demeaning for them to ask for small sums. She wanted to see the system replaced with pensions and other improvements.
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In 1915 Lady Margaret Hall honoured her by naming one of their new buildings, Toynbee Building, after her. In 1921 her friends gave £600 to LMH in her honour. Toynbee left a bequest to LMH when she died in
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When she was 32 she married a man who was eleven years younger than her who she had known for six years. She had been initially attracted to
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in Wimbledon and she went to school in London. She spoke slowly and kindly, but she was said to have a commanding voice.
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Her husband died prematurely in 1883 of meningitis and later that year she volunteered to be the treasurer of
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by his ideas. He was still a student at Oxford University when they met. He had switched colleges and gained
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as a supporter, but he took a pass degree because of his ill-health. Despite this he was a tutor at Oxford.
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Poverty", a Criticism of Mr. Henry George, Being Two Lectures Delivered the 11th and 18th January 1883]
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college administrator and local government official. The Toynbee Building at
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opposed the idea that women should be awarded BA degrees at Oxford.
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recognises her contribution to women's education at Oxford.
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British college administrator and local government official
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in 1931 to build a chapel. She was buried in Oxford's
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Anna Lea Merritt
Muswell Hill, Buckinghamshire
Oxford
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Arnold Toynbee
British
Lady Margaret Hall
Muswell Hill, Buckinghamshire
Arnold Toynbee
Benjamin Jowett
Lady Margaret Hall
Alfred Milner
settlement
Toynbee Hall
Sybella Gurney
Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
Poor Law Guardian
Oxford
St Sepulchre's Cemetery
listed building







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