Eglantyne jebb biography of martin

British social reformer, founder of Save the Children (1876–1928)

Eglantyne Jebb (25 August 1876 – 17 December 1928) was a British social reformer who founded the Save the Children organisation at the end of World War I to relieve the effects of famine in Austria-Hungary and Germany.

Eglantyne jebb biography of martin

She drafted the document that became the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.^[1]

Early life and family

Eglantyne Jebb was born in 1876 in Ellesmere, Shropshire, daughter of Arthur Jebb and his wife and cousin, Eglantyne Louisa Jebb, and grew up at "The Lyth", her family's nearby estate.

The Jebbs were a well-off family with a strong social conscience and commitment to public service. Her mother had founded the Home Arts and Industries Association, to promote Arts and Crafts among young people in rural areas; her sister Louisa Wilkins would help found the Women's Land Army in World War I.

Another sister, Dorothy, who married the Labour MP Charles Roden Buxton, campai