Bramwell Booth
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William Bramwell Booth, CH was a British church and charity leader who was the first Chief of Staff and the second General of The Salvation Army, succeeding his father, William Booth.
Booth in about 1910
Grave of Bramwell Booth at Abney Park Cemetery
Eliza Armstrong case
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The Eliza Armstrong case was a major scandal in the United Kingdom involving a child bought for prostitution for the purpose of exposing the evils of sexual slavery. While it achieved its purpose of h
Bramwell Booth
…was involved with William Thomas Stead in an attempt to publicise the prostitution of young girls. The lurid revelations of how thirteen-year-old Eliza Armstrong was sold for £5 resulted in the 1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act, which raised the age of consent to sixteen years. After the revelations, Booth, Stead…
W.T. Stead in later years
W. T. Stead photographed in his prison uniform