Mary Ward Centre

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 is one centre at 42 Queen Square, where over 1,000 adult education classes are offered.

The former centre at 5 Tavistock Place (1898), designed by Arnold Dunbar Smith and Cecil Claude Brewer ^[2] is considered to be one of the best Arts and Crafts buildings in London ^[3]. The original centre (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].

External links

• Mary Ward (Adult Education) Centre website - current activities of the Centre (Accessed 24 February 2008).
• Photograph of Tavistock Place building on the website of the Victoria and Albert Museum (Accessed 24 February 2008).
• Mary Ward and the Passmore Edwards Settlement: INFED Website giving History.
• The Mary Ward House Trust website (not in use at 8 October 2009).
• The Mary Ward House Exhibition and Conference Centre (accessed 8 October 2009).
• - a Bluffton University page on the Mary Ward Settlement and its architects (accessed 8 October 2009).

References

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 Conference and Exhibition Centre it is a listed Grade 1 building.

Coordinates: 51°31′30″N 0°07′38″W / 51.5251°N 0.1273°W / 51.5251; -0.1273

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