Ada Vachell or Ada Marian Vachell or Sister Ada (27 December 1866 – 29 December 1923) was a worker for people with disabilities in Bristol .
5-546: Vachell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ada Vachell (1866–1923), English disabilities advocate Charles Vachell , (1783–1859), Welsh businessman and local politician Eleanor Vachell (1879–1948), Welsh botanist Horace Annesley Vachell (1861–1955), English writer Oliver Vachell , MP Thomas Vachell (disambiguation) Tanfield Vachell (1602–1658), English member of parliament [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
10-477: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Ada Vachell Vachell was born in Cardiff in 1866. Her mother was Mary Anne or Marian (born Fedden) and William Vachell who was an iron merchant and three times Mayor of Cardiff . Scarlet fever left Ada weak and partially deaf and it killed two of her three brothers. Her father was Mayor of Cardiff for the third and last time in 1875 and in 1877
15-723: Is now called the Guild Heritage Building in Bragg's Lane in Bristol. At the time it was called "The Guild of the Brave Poor Things". This red brick building was innovative as it featured ramps and wide doorways to ensure that it was accessible to people with disabilities. Vachell died in Clifton on 29 December 1923. The charity that she had created continued until 1987 when it sold off its property and became
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25-867: The whole family moved to Clifton in Bristol where her mother's family lived. Vachell appears to have had a disorderly education and she discovered her life's work when she visited Grace Kimmins who was working in East London and later in Sussex. Kimmins had taken her motto from Juliana Horatia Ewing 's 1885 novel The Story of a Short Life . She started the Guild of the Poor Brave Things to help children with disabilities in London. Vachell (like Kimmins) took her motto ‘Laetus sorte mea’ (‘Happy in my lot’) from Ewing's book. In 1913 Vachell's charity built what
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