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WAUGH, BENJAMIN (1839-1908)

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WAUGH, See also:BENJAMIN (1839-1908) , See also:English social reformer, was See also:born at See also:Settle, See also:Yorkshire, on the loth of See also:February 1839. He passed the See also:early years of his See also:life in business, but in 1865 entered the congregational See also:ministry. Settling at See also:Greenwich he threw himself with ardour into the See also:work of social reform, devoting himself especially to the cause of the See also:children. He. served on the See also:London School See also:Board from 187o to 1876. In 1884 he was responsible for the See also:establishment of the London society for the prevention of See also:cruelty to children, which four years later was established on a See also:national basis. He was elected its honorary secretary, and it was largely owing to See also:information obtained by him that the Criminal See also:Law See also:Amendment See also:Act of 1885 was passed, while by his See also:personal effort he secured the insertion of a clause giving magistrates See also:power to take the See also:evidence of children too See also:young to understand the nature of an See also:oath. In 1889 he saw the work accomplished by his society (of which he had been made director the same See also:year) recognized by the passing of an act for the prevention of cruelty to children, the first stepping-See also:stone to the act of 1908 (see CHILDREN, LAW See also:RELATING TO). In 1895 a See also:charter of See also:incorporation was conferred on the society, but in 1897 it was the See also:object of a serious attack on its See also:administration. An inquiry was demanded by Waugh, and the See also:commission of inquiry, which included See also:Lord See also:Herschell and others, completely vindicated thesociety and its director. Waugh had given up See also:pastoral work in 1887 to devote his whole See also:time to the society, and he retained his See also:post as director until 1905, when the See also:state of his See also:health compelled his retirement. He remained consulting director until his See also:death at Westcliff, near Southend, See also:Essex, on the 11th of See also:March 1908. Waugh edited the See also:Sunday See also:Magazine from 1874 to 1896, but he had otherwise little leisure for See also:literary work.

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Gaol See also:Cradle, who rocks it? (1873) was a plea for the abolition of juvenile imprisonment.

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