Joseph Fox (dental surgeon)
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Joseph Fox was an English dental surgeon, known also as a philanthropist. He was a pioneer writer and lecturer on dentistry.
Illustration from The natural history of the human teeth (1803) by Joseph Fox
Joseph Lancaster
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Joseph Lancaster was an English Quaker and public education innovator. He developed, and propagated on the grounds both of economy and efficacy, a monitorial system of primary education. In the first
Joseph Fox (dental surgeon)
…He belonged to the Particular Baptist church of John Rippon, in Carter Lane, London. In 1807 Fox was taken by Sir John Jackson, 1st Baronet to hear Joseph Lancaster lecture, in Dover. He then met Lancaster and his supporter William Corston in London, and heard the extent of Lancaster's financial difficulties with…
Joseph Lancaster, by John Hazlitt, c. 1818
Lancaster's name on the Reformers Monument, Kensal Green Cemetery
The Lancasterian School in Birmingham, founded in 1809
Lancasterian School at Moor Top, Gildersome, West Yorkshire, founded in 1813 and rebuilt later in the 19th century