The Hyams sisters, along with their brother, Geoffrey, supported a settlement house and social service activities in East Boston for many years. In 1937, they established the Fresh Air Camps for local children suffering with tuberculosis. Isabel Hyams, an 1888 graduate of MIT, began the experimental Penny Lunch Club to provide Boston students with nutritious lunches for one or two cents.
Boston sculptor and philanthropist
1700s and 1800s Irish land agent and philanthropist
1800s Irish traveller and social reformer
Hannah Kinney (1761-1833) was one of the first six managers of The Newark Female Charitable Society.
Helen Storrow (1865-1944) funded the Saturday Evening Girls at Boston’s North Bennet Street Industrial School, where young working-class Italian and Jewish immigrant girls were taught literacy skills, pottery, and other crafts in a culturally rich program.
Irish chatelaine, farmer and philanthropist
Australian sculptor and philanthropist Ola Cohn left a lasting impression on Victoria’s art world.
1700s and 1800s marchioness of Downshire, Baroness Sandys of Ombersley in her own right, and noted whig partisan
Irish political hostess, business owner and activist