Person’s Profile
Elizabeth Margaretta Maria Gilbert(1826-1885)
Description
campaigner for the blind
Biography
The blind daughter of a bishop, she had founded the Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind, starting with a school in Holborn in 1854; see Gordon Goodwin, ‘Gilbert, Elizabeth Margaretta Maria (1826–1885)’, rev. Kenneth R. Whitton, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
