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JANUARY 12<br />
On This Day in 1895, the National Trust was founded.<br />
This portrait of Octavia Hill (1838-1912) one of the founders of the National Trust, is<br />
by her friend Edward Clifford (1844-1907) and was given to the Collection by<br />
Octavia's sister, Miranda. Ruskin employed Octavia Hill as a copyist and later<br />
provided her with houses in Marylebone where Hill began her distinguished work in<br />
social housing. Although she and Ruskin later fell out, she and her fellow National<br />
Trust founders were consciously inspired by Ruskin's call to protect the nation's<br />
architectural heritage and to preserve open spaces. http://www.guildofstgeorge.org.uk
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