Agnes Weston

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Agnes Weston, popularly known as Aggie Weston (26 March 1840 – 23 October 1918) was an English philanthropist noted for her work among sailors in the Royal Navy.

Biography

Agnes Weston was born in London, the daughter of a barrister. In 1868 she took up hospital visiting and parish work in Bath, and through beginning a correspondence with a seaman who asked her to write to him, developed into the devoted friend of sailors, superintendent of the Royal Naval Temperance Society and founder of the Royal Naval Sailors' Rests, or clubs for sailors, at Devonport and Portsmouth. She published Life Among the Bluejackets in 1909. Shortly before her death in Devonport her work for the navy was publicly recognised when she was awarded the G.B.E.

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References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Weston, Agnes". Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York. This work in turn cites:
- S. G. Wintz, Our Bluejackets, Miss Weston's Work (1894)

External links

National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth: biography of Agnes "Aggie" Weston

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Date of death	23 October 1918
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