Rosa Mary Barrett
Rosa Mary Barrett | |
|---|---|
| Born | 15 January 1854 |
| Died | 28 August 1936 (aged 82) Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, UK |
| Occupations | |
| Relatives | William F. Barrett (brother) |
Rosa Mary Barrett (15 January 1854 – 28 August 1936)[a] was a British philanthropist, child care reformer and suffragist active in Dublin.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Barrett was born on 15 January 1854 in Royston, Hertfordshire[b] to The Rev William Garland Barrett (1812–1865), a Congregational Minister and missionary for the London Missionary Society, and Martha Barrett (née Fletcher; c. 1811–1893).[1][2][3][4][5] The youngest of four surviving children, Barrett was the sister of the physicist William F. Barrett.[1][2]
Barrett moved to Monkstown, Co. Dublin and then to Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire), Co. Dublin, in Ireland. In 1879 she helped set up a committee for the establishment of a care facility for children, effectively a creche allowing women to enter the workforce. It eventually led to the establishment of The Cottage Home for Little Children which housed Protestant children.[6] To avoid accusations of proselytising, the home did not accept Catholic children.
Rosa Barrett founded the Irish section of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in 1889.[7] On 28 August 1936, Barrett died at her home in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.[1][2]
Published works
[edit]- — (1884). Guide to Dublin charities. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co.
- — (August 1892). "Legislation on behalf of neglected children in America and elsewhere". Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland. 72 (9): 616–636.
- — (December 1895). "The rescue of the young". The Humanitarian. London: Humanitarian League / Ernest Bell. OCLC 977754943.
- — (August 1896). "Further details as regards Foreign legislation on behalf of destitute and neglected children". Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland. 76 (10): 143-215.
- — (February 1900). "Crime in Ireland". The Humanitarian. London: Humanitarian League / Ernest Bell. OCLC 977754943. summarized in "Notes & comments". The Christian. No. 1569. 22 February 1900. p. 9.
- — (June 1900). "Pensions for aged women". The Humanitarian. 16. London: Humanitarian League / Ernest Bell: 430–432. OCLC 977754943.
- — (June 1900). "The treatment of juvenile offenders: Together with statistics of their numbers" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. 63 (2): 183–271. doi:10.2307/2979656. JSTOR 2979656.
- Flandrin, M. Paul; — (1902). "The reform of young criminals: With special reference to Great Britain". Report of the Proceedings of the Third International Congress for the Welfare and Protection of Children. London: P. S. King & Son. pp. 135–143. OCLC 24683234.
- Gibbons, J. S.; — (1906). Inebriety and crime, with some state remedies : reprints of papers presented to the International Congress on Prison Management (otherwise called the International Quinquennial Penitentiary Congress), held at Buda-Pesth, September, 1905. Dublin: Hodges Figgis, & Co., Ltd. OCLC 1418918012.
- — (October 1906). "Children's trials, courts, and child prisoners". Progress: Civic, Social, Industrial (4). British Institute of Social Service: 259–273.
- — (1907). Ellice Hopkins: A memoir. London: Wells Gardiner & Co.
- — (January 1908). "Chips from social workshops". Progress: Civic, Social, Industrial. Vol. 3, no. 1. British Institute of Social Service. p. 197-198.
- — (January 1908). "Fifty years of child legislation". Progress: Civic, Social, Industrial. 3 (1). British Institute of Social Service: 262–.
- — (1910). "The Children's Act". Proceedings of Annual Congress of the American Prison Association: 353–354.
- — (12 May 1917). "The 'trade' and the nation". The Spectator: A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art (Letter to the editor). Vol. 118, no. 4637. London: Alfred Everson. pp. 538–539.
- Barrett, William Fletcher; — (1925). The religion of health: An examination of Christian science. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. ASIN B00H34HGLM. OCLC 4479993. Republished as Christian science: An examination of the religion of health. New York: Henry Holt. 1925. OCLC 17667358.
Notes
[edit]- ↑ Also cited as 1855.[1]
- ↑ Also cited as the Colony of Jamaica.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Oldfield, Sybil (23 September 2004). "Barrett, Rosa Mary (1855–1936), social reformer and feminist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/38512. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- 1 2 3 4 Clarke, Frances; Byrne, Patricia M. (October 2009). "Barrett, Rosa (Mary)". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
- ↑ Gauld, Alan (8 June 2023). "Barrett, Sir William Fletcher (1844–1925), physicist and psychical researcher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71319. Retrieved 1 July 2026. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ "Nonconformist and Dissenting Studies, 1650-1850". Google Drive. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
- ↑ Palmer, Graham (4 September 2019). "Royston's Printer (Part 1)". Herts Memories. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
- ↑ The Cottage Home History www.cottagehome.ie
- ↑ Rosa Mary Barrett (1855-1936)
Further reading
[edit]- Daly, Mary E. (1997). The Spirit of Earnest Inquiry: The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847-1997. Dublin: Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland. pp. 76–78. ISBN 978-1-872002-29-3.
