Eglantyne Jebb
Social activist
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Eglantyne Jebb 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... Wikipedia
Born: August 25, 1876, Ellesmere, United Kingdom
Died: December 17, 1928 (age 52 years), Geneva, Switzerland
Education: Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford (1895–1898)
Parents: Eglantyne Louisa Jebb and Arthur Trevor Jebb
Siblings: Dorothy Buxton and Louisa Jebb
Known for: founder of Save the Children (1919), Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1924)