Blue Plaque Recognition
The property has been marked by an English Heritage Blue Plaque since 29 July 2001, which honors Eleanor Rathbone (1872-1946), suffragette and pioneer of the state-funded family allowance, and her father, social reformer William Rathbone VI (1819-1902), who created the first system of district nursing. The plaque was unveiled by William Rathbone X at Greenbank House.
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Famous quotes containing the words blue and/or recognition:
“The blue and the gray. Let us march together beneath the star- spangled banner.”
—Laurence Stallings (1894–1968)
“I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)