Octavia Hill, Social Reformer, Blue Plaques
By A Mystery Man Writer
Description
Octavia Hill was one of the three founders of the National Trust and a social reformer who worked to improve housing conditions for the urban poor. She is commemorated with a plaque at 2 Garbutt Place, Marylebone, where she began her first housing scheme in 1865.
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