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Marjory Allen, Baroness Allen of Hurtwood (10 May 189711 April
1976), ne Marjory Gill and known to her friends as
Joan, was an Englishlandscape architect and promoter ofchild
welfare.
Marjory Gill was born in Bexleyheath, Kent. She was educated at
Bedales School and University College, Reading, where she
took a diploma course in horticulture. In 1921 she married
Clifford Allen, a leading member of the Independent Labour Party
who
had been imprisoned as a conscientious objectorin World War I.
Marjory Allen worked as a landscape architect throughout the
1920s and 1930s and was elected the first fellow of the
Institute of Landscape Architects in 1930.
Clifford Allen, who had been created 1st Baron Allen of Hurtwood
in 1932, died in 1939, and Lady Allen threw herself into her
work, also becoming interested in the welfare of children. Her
campaigning for children in institutional care led to the passing
of
the Children's Act 1948. She was chairman (19421948) and
president (19481951) of the Nursery School Association of Great
Britain, founder president of the World Organisation for Early
Childhood Education, a member of the Central Advisory Council
for
Education (19451949), and chairman of theAdvisory Council on
Children's Entertainment Films (19441950). AfterWorld War II
she served as a liaison officer with UNICEF in Europe and the
Middle East. She campaigned for facilities for children growing
up
in the new high-rise developments in Britain's cities and wrote
a series of illustrated books on the subject of playgrounds, and
at
least one book on adventure playgrounds, spaces for free
creativity by children, which helped the idea spread worldwide.
References
Dictionary of National Biography
External links
Catalogue of Marjory Allen's papers at Warwick University
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