About Rosa M. Barrett
Lived 1855 – 1936 (aged 80–81). Rosa M. Barrett was a British activist, social reformer, suffragist, social worker and non-fiction writer.
Rosa Mary Barrett (15 January 1854 – 28 August 1936) was an English philanthropist, child care reformer and suffragist active in Dublin.
Biography Barrett was born on 15 January 1854 in Royston, Hertfordshire (Also cited as the Colony of Jamaica.) The youngest of four surviving children, Barrett was the sister of the physicist William F. Barrett. To avoid accusations of proselytising, the home did not accept Catholic children.
Rosa Barrett founded the Irish section of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in 1889. On 28 August 1936, Barrett died at her home in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.
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Who was Rosa M. Barrett?
English-Irish social worker (1955-1936)
When was Rosa M. Barrett born?
Rosa M. Barrett was born in 1855 in Jamaica, England.
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Rosa M. Barrett died in 1936 in Welwyn Garden City.
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Rosa M. Barrett was an activist, social reformer, suffragist, social worker and non-fiction writer.
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Rosa M. Barrett was British.
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