Further reading
- Daly, Mary E. (1997). The Spirit of Earnest Inquiry: The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847-1997. Dublin: Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland. pp. 76–78. ISBN 978-1-872002-29-3.
Rosa Mary Barrett | |
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| Born | 15 January 1854 Royston, Hertfordshire, England |
| Died | 28 August 1936 (aged 82) Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England |
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| Relatives | William F. Barrett (brother) |
Rosa Mary Barrett (15 January 1854 – 28 August 1936) was an English philanthropist, child care reformer and suffragist active in Dublin.
Barrett was born on 15 January 1854 in Royston, Hertfordshire to the Reverend William Garland Barrett (1812–1865), a Congregational Minister and missionary for the London Missionary Society, and Martha Barrett (née Fletcher; c. 1811–1893). The youngest of four surviving children, Barrett was the sister of the physicist William F. Barrett.
Barrett moved to Monkstown, Co. Dublin and then to Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire), Co. Dublin, in Ireland. In 1879 she helped set up a committee for the establishment of a care facility for children, effectively a creche allowing women to enter the workforce. It eventually led to the establishment of The Cottage Home for Little Children which housed Protestant children. To avoid accusations of proselytising, the home did not accept Catholic children.[citation needed]
Rosa Barrett founded the Irish section of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in 1889. On 28 August 1936, Barrett died at her home in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.
