| Biography | In 1895 Malvern College in Worcestershire started a school mission as did most other public schools during that period at Canning Town in Londons East End, for the purpose of bringing welfare and recreation to the youth of the dock area slums, who were mostly unemployed and extremely poverty stricken. The founder of the Dockland Settlements, Sir Reginald Kennedy-Cox, was then a Malvern school boy and during his holidays made several visits to the mission. In due course he went to Oxford and became immensely interested in the theatre, writing plays for West End theatres. Upon his return to the Canning Town slums he purchased property and coined the word Dockland. The Dockland Settlements started shortly thereafter and was linked by the backyards to the Malvern Mission cottages. It became known as The Dockland Settlement and Malvern Mission Boys Clubs, with Sir Reginald in charge. |