Louisa Daniell

Louisa Daniell (, c. 1809 – 16 September 1871) was a British philanthropist known for her work among the poor of The Midlands but most especially for her Soldiers' Home and Institute in the garrison town of Aldershot in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era.

Early work Daniell was born in Bath in Somerset in about 1809

On 29 May 1834 at Woodchester in Gloucestershire she married Lieutenant Frederick Daniell (1809-1837) of the 18th Madras Native Infantry, like herself a devout Christian. After marrying they went to India where they had two children. In India she held prayer meetings and distributed religious tracts. who succeeded her mother in her philanthropic work at Aldershot, was educated at Brighton.

Move to Aldershot

The Meeting Hall at the Soldiers' Home. All that is left of the original building - it is now the Aldershot Masonic Centre In 1861, she and her daughter were living at Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. By the early 1860s her work at Rugby had brought Daniell to the notice of Mr. Wilson, the Secretary of the County Towns Mission Society, who implored her to "adopt Aldershot" and "work it in the same way as her existing mission stations."

Daniell and her daughter arrived in Aldershot in April 1862 with the intention of setting up a place of recreation and relaxation for soldiers other than the public houses and saloons. With the help and guidance of some of the evangelical philanthropists of the period including Lord Shaftesbury they rented a house in Artillery Terrace in October 1862

Death Daniell died on 16 September 1871 at the family home, Eastwick House in Great Malvern, where she was being treated for breast cancer. Her body lay in state at the Aldershot Mission Hall before being taken for burial at Aldershot Military Cemetery with an escort of Royal Engineers.

When Georgiana Daniell died in 1894 she was buried with her mother in Aldershot Military Cemetery. They were granted permission to be buried there in recognition of their work for soldiers welfare.

Continuation of the work

Georgiana Daniell Georgiana Fanny Shipley Daniell (May 20, 1835 - June 24, 1894) was born in Madras, India, to Louisa Daniell and Captain Frederick Daniell. Accompanying her widowed mother in all the trials of her life, then in her work, she never married and was known as Miss Daniell in Aldershot.