Mary Ward Centre

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Mary Ward Centre, Tavistock Place.
Mary Ward Centre, Tavistock Place.

The Mary Ward Centre, previously the Mary Ward Settlement, is an adult education college located in London. It was founded by Mary Augusta Ward as the Passmore Edwards Settlement, financed by John Passmore Edwards [1].

There are two centres, one at 5 Tavistock Place (1898), designed by Arnold Dunbar Smith and Cecil Claude Brewer [2] and considered to be one of the best Arts and Crafts buildings in London [3], and another at 42 Queen Square, where over 1,000 adult education classes are offered.

The former (originally the Passmore Edwards Settlement) is notable for two reasons: It was the site of the historic debate on women's suffrage between Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Mary (Mrs Humphry) Ward, Feb 1909 (Ward was president of the Anti-Suffrage League; she was decisively defeated); secondly the building housed the first fully equipped classrooms for children with disabilities and pioneered the importance of play within children's education [1].

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  1. ^ a b Mary Ward and the Passmore Edwards Settlement: INFED Website giving History (accessed 24 February 2008). Note: this site has reliable academic references.
  2. ^ Article on the Architects, with portraits of them. (accessed 24 February 2008).
  3. ^ According to the Mary Ward House Trust it is a listed Grade 1 building.
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