Charlotte Hanbury
English philanthropist 1830-1900
Charlotte Hanbury (10 April 1830 – 22 October 1900) was a British philanthropist and a missionary in Morocco.
Life
Hanbury was born in Stoke Newington in London. Her mother Elizabeth Hanbury was a Quaker minister who had married Cornelius Hanbury of the chemist company Allen & Hanburys in 1826, becoming his second wife. She had a brother named Cornelius like her father and a sister named like her mother. Charlotte worked first helping in local ragged schools.
Her parents were noted Quakers, Charlotte was evangelical but she was not so denominational. Her first spiritual work was to work with George Brealey. He was from the Open Brethren and he started his work distributing tracts to people at fairs and public events around his home of Exeter in Devon. She still helped in schools in the Blackdown hills so she could assist Brealey in the counties of Somerset and Devon.
In 1887 Elizabeth and Charlotte Hanbury left the wilds and moved to the home of her brother Cornelius, in Richmond.
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