Mary Carpenter
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Mary Carpenter was an English educational and social reformer. The daughter of a Unitarian minister, she founded a ragged school and reformatories, bringing previously unavailable educational opportun
Portrait photograph of Carpenter in later life
Mary Carpenter's name on the Reformers’ Monument, Kensal Green Cemetery
The Red Lodge, Bristol, where Mary Carpenter established a reformatory school in 1854
Red Lodge Reformatory, 1889
Philip Pearsall Carpenter
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Philip Pearsall Carpenter was an English minister who emigrated to Canada, where his field work as a malacologist or conchologist is still well regarded today. A man of many talents, he wrote, publish
Mary Carpenter
…She contributed to fund-raising efforts in the abolitionist cause and maintained an interest in this for the next twenty years. Her brothers William, Philip and Russell and her sister Anna were also active in this campaign. In 1851 the return of a fugitive slave from Boston back to the southern states caused…
Philip Pearsall Carpenter