Lord Shaftesbury: a life
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Lord Shaftesbury: a life
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1826 Enters House of Commons
1828 Becomes a lunacy commissioner, the start of his lifelong work for the
humane treatment of the insane
1830 Marries Lady Emily Cowper
1833 Steers Ten Hour Bill to limit child factory labour (Ten Hour Act passed 1847)
1840 Supports Bill prohibiting use of climbing boys for chimney cleaning
1842 Instrumental in passing of Mines Act, excluding children under 10 and women from work in mines
1842 Helps found the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes
1844 Becomes president of the Ragged Schools Union
1845 Secures the Lunacy Acts for regulation of asylums
1848 Joins Board of Health and campaigns for better sanitation and low-cost housing for urban workers
1849 Implements emergency measures to contain cholera pidemic in London
1851 Enters House of Lords
1852 The Ragged Schools’ first refuge for homeless children opens
1851, 1853, 1855 Proposes Bill against use of climbing boys by chimney sweeps
1855 Separate refuge for boys opens
1860 Refuge for older homeless girls opens in Acton, west London
1866 First training ship for homeless boys
1867 Introduces Bill prohibiting use of field labour by children under eight
1868 Lays the foundation stone of a co-operative housing venture in Lavender Hill, south London, known as Shaftesbury Park
1869 Takes up Samuel Plimsoll’s fight against overloaded “coffin ships”
1871 Moves motion to extend Factory Act to children working in brick fields
1873 Shaftesbury School for Boys opens at Bisley, Surrey
1885 Dies, after a decade continuing his work for the poor
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