Eglantyne Jebb

Eglantyne Jebb
Jebb in 1920
Born25 August 1876
Died17 December 1928 (aged 52)
Geneva, Switzerland
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Known forFounder of Save the Children (1919), drafter of Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1924)
Parent(s)Arthur Jebb and Eglantyne Louisa Jebb
RelativesLouisa Wilkins (sister); Dorothy Frances Jebb (sister)

Eglantyne Jebb (25 August 1876 – 17 December 1928) was a British social reformer who founded the Save the Children organisation at the end of World War I to relieve the effects of famine in Austria-Hungary and Germany. She drafted the document that became the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.[1]

  1. ^ Mulley, Clare. (2009). The woman who saved the children : a biography of Eglantyne Jebb founder of Save the Children. Oxford: Oneworld. ISBN 9781851686575. OCLC 271080917.