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BARNETT, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS (1844– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 414 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARNETT, See also:SAMUEL See also:AUGUSTUS (1844– ) , See also:English See also:clergy-See also:man and social reformer, was See also:born at See also:Bristol on the 8th of See also:February 1844, the son of See also:Francis Augustus Barnett, an See also:iron manufacturer. After leaving Wadham See also:College, See also:Oxford, in 1866, he visited the See also:United States. Next See also:year he was ordained to the curacy of St See also:Mary's, Bryanston Square, and took See also:priest's orders in 1868. In 1872 he became See also:vicar of St See also:Jude's, Commercial See also:Street, Whitechapel, and in the next year married Henrietta See also:Octavia See also:Rowland, who had been a co-worker with See also:Miss Octavia See also:Hill and was no less ardent a philanthropist than her See also:husband. Mr and Mrs Barnett worked hard for the poor of their See also:parish, opening evening See also:schools for adults, providing them with See also:music and reasonable entertainment, and serving on the See also:board of guardians and on the managing committees of schools. Mr Barnett did much to discourage outdoor See also:relief, as tending to the pauperization of the neighbourhood. At the same See also:time the conditions of indoor relief were improved, and the various charities were co-ordinated, by co-operation with the Charity Organization Society and the parish board of guardians. In 1875 See also:Arnold See also:Toynbee paid a visit, the first of many, to See also:White-See also:chapel, and Mr Barnett, who kept in See also:constant See also:touch with Oxford, formed in' 877 a small See also:committee, over which he presided himself, to consider the organization of university See also:extension in See also:London, his See also:chief assistants being Leonard See also:Montefiore, a See also:young Oxford man, and See also:Frederick See also:Rogers, a member of the vellum binders' See also:trade See also:union. The committee received influential support, and in See also:October four courses of lectures, one by Dr S. R. See also:Gardiner on English See also:history, were given in Whitechapel. The Barnetts were also associated with the See also:building of See also:model dwellings, with the See also:establishment of the See also:children's See also:country See also:holiday fund and the See also:annual See also:loan exhibitions of See also:fine See also:art at the Whitechapel See also:gallery.

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article by Mr Barnett in the Nineteenth See also:Century discussed the question of university settlements. This resulted in See also:July in the formation of the University Settlements Association, and when Toynbee See also:Hall was built shortly afterwards Mr Barnett became its See also:warden. He was a select preacher at Oxford in 1895-1897, and at See also:Cambridge in 1900; he received a canonry in Bristol See also:cathedral in 1893, but retained his wardenship of Toynbee Hall, while relinquishing. the living of St Jude's. In See also:June 1906 he was preferred to a canonry at See also:Westminster, and when in See also:December he resigned the wardenship of Toynbee Hall the position of See also:president was created so that he might retain his connexion with the institution. Among See also:Canon Barnett's See also:works is Practicable See also:Socialism (1888, 2nd ed. 1894), written in See also:conjunction with his wife.

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