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Eton College

Stephen attended this school  and very much enjoyed his time there

 

NLCS

North London Collegiate School.  Collet attended this radical school which is still a school today

 

RES

Collet was a member of the Royal Economic Society.

 

RSS

Collet was a member and supporter of the Royal Statistical Society and submitted many papers to their Journal.

 

South Place Ethical Society  Institution set up for free discussion.

 

The Victorian Web

 

Toynbee Hall

East End University Settlement institution set up to help educate the poor.

 

Unitarians

Collet’s family were Unitarians as were many other Victorian reformers.

 

 

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Andrew Lownie

The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency Ltd, founded in 1988, is now one of the UK's leading non-fiction literary agencies with a special emphasis on history and biography.

 

Beatrice Webb

Worked for Charles Booth and was acquaintance of Collet.

 

Clara Collet

East End statistician working for    Charles Booth.  Worked at Board of Trade.  Friends with Gissing

 

Charles Booth

Compiled ‘Life and Labour of the People of London’.

 

David Lloyd George

President of Board of Trade during reforming Liberal Ministry 1906 - 08.  Collet’s ‘boss’.

 

Eleanor Marx

Daughter of Karl Marx.  Socialist.  Friend of Clara Collet

 

George Gissing

Victorian social author and friend of Collet

 

H G Wells

After Gissing’s death in 1904, Collet had a long standing argument with Wells.

 

Karl Marx

Father of Communism

 

 

 

 

 

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Montague Druitt

Probable acquqintance of JK Stephen

 

Prince Eddy

Prince Albert Edward Victor suspect as Jack the Ripper.  Tutored by J K Stephen.  Died young two weeks before Stephen.

 

Ramsay MacDonald

Friend of Collet and Labour politician/Prime minister

 

Virginia Woolf

J K Stephen’s cousin.  Suffered the same mental illness and like him committed suicide.

 

William Beveridge

Collet and Beveridge on the Committee set up in 1917 to reconstruct the country post World War 1

 

Winston Churchill

Liberal President of Board of Trade 1908 - 11.  Collet’s ‘boss’

 

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Cambridge University

Stephen did his degree at King’s College Cambridge.  

 

Casebook Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper Website