Thomas John Barnardo was a philanthropist

Philanthropist

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 and founder and director of homes for poor children, born in Dublin. From the foundation of the first Barnardo's

Barnardo's

Barnardo's is a British charity founded by Thomas John Barnardo in 1866, to care for vulnerable children and young people. As of 2010, it spends over £190 million each year on more than 400 local services aimed at helping these same groups...

 home in 1870 to the date of Barnardo’s death, nearly 100,000 child

Child

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ren had been rescued, trained and given a better life.
Barnardo was born in Dublin, Ireland. He was the fourth of five children of John Michaelis Barnardo, a furrier, and his second wife, Abigail, an Englishwoman

English people

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 and member of the Plymouth Brethren

Plymouth Brethren

The Plymouth Brethren is a conservative, Evangelical Christian movement, whose history can be traced to Dublin, Ireland, in the late 1820s. Although the group is notable for not taking any official "church name" to itself, and not having an official clergy or liturgy, the title "The Brethren," is...

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