Mary Joynson
English social worker and charity administrator
About Mary Joynson
Lived 1924 – 2013 (aged 88). Mary Joynson was a business executive and social worker.
Mary Grace Joynson (5 December 1924 – 13 April 2013) was a British childcare worker, the director of Barnardo's, the UK's largest children's charity Barnardo's, from 1973 to 1984.
Joynson was born in Bingham, Nottinghamshire, the youngest of three children of a Methodist minister and his teacher wife. She was educated at Trinity Hall School, Southport, and the London School of Economics.
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Who was Mary Joynson?
English social worker and charity administrator (1924-2013)
When was Mary Joynson born?
Mary Joynson was born on 5 December 1924.
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Mary Joynson died on 13 April 2013.
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Mary Joynson was a business executive and social worker.
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