Founded by Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840-1915) and other Jewish philanthropists including Frederick Mocatta and Samuel Montagu to provide "the industrial classes with commodious and healthy Dwellings at a minimum rent". 1952 renamed as the Industrial Dwellings Society (1885) Ltd. Today known as IDS.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Four Per Cent Industrial Dwellings Company
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Rothschild Buildings arch
This arch originally formed an entrance to the tenement block of model dwelli...
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Benjamin Waugh
Social reformer and minister. Born in Settle, Yorkshire. Whilst working in the slums of Greenwich, he became appalled at the deprivations and cruelties suffered by children. He wrote 'The Gaol Crad...
4 memorials
Sir Edwin Chadwick
Born Lancashire but brought up in London. A friend of Jeremy Bentham, Bentham dying in his arms. Chadwick's major achievement was the 1842 publication of the Poor Law Commissioners' "Report on the ...
1 memorial
1 memorial
1 memorial
Girls Friendly Society
From English Heritage: "... founded in 1875 by Mary Townsend as an Anglican organisation that offered care and support to such women, through seven 'lodges' across west London, in areas like Ealing...
1 memorial
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