Focus on this artwork and discuss the Dr Barnado.
Thomas John Barnado was born in Dublin in 1845. Moving to London in 1866 to train as a doctor, he was profoundly affected by the child poverty he witnessed in the East End of London and, in 1867, opened his first ragged school. By the late 1870s, Barnado, working with his wife Syrie, had established over 50 orphanages and schools for poor children in London, including his Girls' Village at Barkingside, in what is now the London Borough of Redbridge. The Barkingside development followed the concept of a 'village' environment, rather than an institutional approach, first established at children's homes at Farningham, Kent, in 1865, and at Princess Mary's Village Home for Little Girls at Addlestone, Surrey, in 1870. The Barkingside village was also originally the Barnados' home, which they received as a wedding present. Barnado died in 1905 at his home in Surbiton and, following a funeral attended by very large crowds and a subsequent cremation, his ashes were interred at Barkingside.
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