Eglantyne Jebb (25 August 1876 – 17 December 1928) was a British social reformer who founded the Save the Children organisation at the end of the First World War to relieve the effects of famine in Austria-Hungary and Germany. She drafted the document that became the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
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25 August 1876 Ellesmere, Shropshire, England
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Died |
17 December 1928 (aged 52) Geneva, Switzerland
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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