George Smith (philanthropist)

George Smith (1831 - 1895) was a manager of the Whitwick Colliery Company Tileries in Leicestershire, England during the nineteenth century, who campaigned against industrial child labour. Smith highlighted the plight of children employed in the Leicestershire and Derbyshire brickyards of mid-Victorian England, some of whom were as young as eight years old and worked for up to seventy-five hours a week.[1]

References

1. Imogen. "Crick History Society: George Smith". Crick Village Community Web Site. Retrieved 2011-10-25.

External links

• Works by George Smith at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about George Smith at Internet Archive