Barnardo
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS JOHN, an Barnardo Homes for homeless children; had his attention first turned in this direction by the condition in which he found a boy in a ragged school in East London in 1866. Following up the subject, he began to rescue children who had found their only shelter at night under archways, or in courts and alleys. These received an industrial training. At the were introduced to his homes, where they time of Dr. Barnardo's death, in 1905, through his institutions. There were over 60,000 destitute children had passed then in the United Kingdom and colonies 112 branches including an immigration depot at Ontario, and farm at Manitoba, home for babies and hospital for sick children. Thousands of " Barnardo's boys" fought with the British forces on land and sea in the European War. JOSEPH MARIE (bär-näv'), a French He was the son of a rich procureur. orator, was born at Grenoble in 1761. He was chosen a Deputy of the tiers état to the Assembly of the States-General, and showed himself an open enemy to the court. The Constituent Assembly ap- 1791. After the flight of the King, and pointed him their President in January, the subsequent arrest of the royal family, he was sent, with Petion and Latour- Maubourg, to conduct them to Paris. When the correspondence of the court fell into the hands of the victorious party, Aug. 10, 1792, they pretended to have found documents which showed him to have been secretly connected with it, and he was guillotined Nov. 29, 1793.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote this in 1921 it praised Barnardo's 112 branches, an "immigration depot at Ontario, and farm at Manitoba" — the machinery of sending poor British children overseas. The charity survives as Barnardo's, still one of Britain's largest children's charities, but it no longer runs the orphanages that defined it: it closed its last traditional children's home around 1989 and now works mainly in fostering, adoption, counselling and support for children in their own families. The child migration schemes that Collier's reported approvingly are now treated as a scandal — many of those children were separated from living parents and some were badly treated — and in February 2010 the British Prime Minister formally apologised for the child migrant programmes. Note too that this page has run two entries together: the second half is Joseph Marie Barnave, the French orator guillotined in 1793, not a Barnardo at all.
Written for this edition, 2026.