Jane Elizabeth Hughes (1828–1848)
Jane Elizabeth Senior (1848–1877)
1828–77
Workhouse and school inspector, and philanthropist. Sister of Thomas Hughes, author of Tom Brown’s schooldays. Married Nassau John Senior in 1848. Lived in Clapham from 1860; helped support her family by giving singing lessons. Directed the ladies’ committee of the London office of the Red Cross during the Franco-Prussian war and was awarded the Red Cross medal. Appointed inspector of workhouses and workhouse pauper schools, 1873; resigned through ill health, 1874.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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