RESOURCES

 
 
 

 

PUBLICATIONS

   

JOHN PASSMORE EDWARDS
 
In addition to his own, slim, autobiography, A Few Footprints (1905),
now re-available as a facsimile edition (Kessinger Publishing Legacy Reprint Series),
there have been four biographies;

Funding The Ladder; The Passmore Edwards Legacy;

Dean Evans
to be published by Francis Boutle Spring 2011 as part of the centennial programme


J Passmore Edwards, Philanthropist;

E H Burrage
S W Partridge & Co, London, 1902
The Life & Good works of John Passmore Edwards;

R S Best
Dyllansow Truran, Redruth, 1981

John Passmore Edwards, 1823-1911, An account of his life and works

P Baynes,
Privately published, London, 1994

 

 

PUBLICATIONS ON EDWARDS CONTEMPORIES AND CO-WORKERS

Silvanus Trevail, Cornish Architect and Entrepreneur

Ronald Perry & Hazel Harradence
Francis Boutle, London, 2008
Mrs Humphrey Ward, Eminent Victorian, Pre-eminent Edwardian;

John Southerland
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990

 

 

SEPARATELY PUBLISHED HISTORIES

Few of the individual Passmore Edwards buildings have separately published histories;

Passmore Edwards Institutes, Founding & Opening Ceremonies

J J Macdonald
Strand Newspaper Company, 1900

A Caring Community: A Centenary History of the National Society for Epilepsy and Chalfont Centre

Jean Barclay
NSE, 1992

Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria: Illustrations of Buildings Endowed by Passmore Edwards

J Passmore Edwards
Strand Newspaper Company, London, 1897


A Proud Heritage: The Story of the Railway Convalescent Homes


John L Salmon
Railway Convalescent Homes, London, 1954


100 Years in Newlyn: Diary of a Gallery

Melissa Hardie
Patten Press, Penzance, 1995.


Echoes of a Century: The Centenary History of Southern Newspapers Ltd


Gordon Sewell
Southern Newspapers Ltd, Southampton, 1964


The Passmore Edwards Settlement

Mrs Humphrey Ward
Passmore Edwards Settlement, London, 1901


Mary Ward Settlement: A History 1891-1931

John Rogers, Passmore Edwards Research Series No 1
Mary Ward Settlement, London

John Passmore Edwards & Mary Ward: A Special Relationship

Peter Baynes
The Mary Ward Centre, London, 1991

Camborne Public (Free) Library; 1895-1963

J F Odgers
Camborne- Redruth UDC, Camborne, 1963

A Century of Caring – Furness School; 1883-1983;

R Chapman, 1983


Acton Hospital 1897-1997

Acton History Group, 1997


The First Hundred Years of Acton Library

A & T Harper Smith
Acton History Group, 2000

The First Century

George Tremlett
The Workingmen’s Club and Institute Union Ltd, 1962
 
 
BACKGROUND

Books giving the background to the society in which Passmore Edwards lived include:


The Victorians

A N Wilson
Hutchinson, London, 2002

A Social History of England, 1851-1990

Francois Bedarida
Routledge, London, 1991


Victorian London

Liza Picard
Weidenfield & Nicolson, London, 2005