What is the Bloomsbury Project?
The -funded UCL Bloomsbury Project was established to investigate 19th-century Bloomsbury’s development from swampy rubbish-dump to centre of intellectual life
Led by Professor Rosemary Ashton, with Dr Deborah Colville as Researcher, the Project has traced the origins, Bloomsbury locations, and reforming significance of hundreds of progressive and innovative institutions
Many of the extensive archival resources relating to these institutions have also been identified and examined by the Project, and Bloomsbury’s developing streets and squares have been mapped and described
This website is a gateway to the information gathered and edited by Project members during the Project’s lifetime, 1 October 2007–30 April 2011, with the co-operation of Bloomsbury’s institutions, societies, and local residents
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Bloomsbury and the Bloomsbury Project
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Hon. Arthur Kinnaird (1814–1887)
a summary of his Bloomsbury connections
He was a devout evangelical and a supporter of numerous charitable causes
In Bloomsbury, he was Treasurer of the Home for Gentlewomen in Queen Square (Sampson Low, The Charities of London, 1850; Sampson Low, The Charities of London in 1861, 1862)
His wife Mary Jane (née Hoare) was the niece of Rev. Baptist Wriothesley Noel; she became the founder of the YWCA
For more general biographical information about Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, see his entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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