Octavia Hill

Octavia Hill ( born December 3, 1838 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, † August 13 1912 in London) was a British social reformer. She was a driving force in the development of social housing in the cities, especially London, in the second half of the 19th century - which resulted in the founding of the National Trust. Octavia Hill is considered a pioneer of property management and was 1905-1912 Member of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws.

The National Trust is a nonprofit organization that manages objects in the field of historic preservation and nature conservation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Founded the National Trust in 1895 by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwick Rawnsley to preserve buildings or landscapes of historic interest or particular beauty. In their ideas for social reform, it submitted a number of concrete proposals significant, such as garden cities and workers' colleges. The theory and practice of historic preservation coined Hill and John Ruskin decisively.

In 1873 translated Grand Duchess Alice of Hesse and by Rhine ( 1843-1878 ), a daughter of Queen Victoria, the treatise "On the Homes of the London Poor " by Octavia Hill into German.

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