Toynbee Hall
a settlement organized in Commercial street, Whitechapel, London, as a memorial to Arnold Toynbee, (q. v.), in January, 1885, under the direction of the Rev. S. A. Barnett.
It partakes somewhat of the nature of both a college and a club, the idea being to connect the memorial of Toynbee with the study of "political economy in its social aspects, to which he devoted the scholar half of himself, and with his work among the artisan population of our great cities, to which he gave the other, the missionary half." This is carried out by the members of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge who find residence there. The idea of college settlements suggested by this work was enthusiastically carried out in the United States.