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Kyrle|kɜːl|
The name of John Kyrle (1637–1724), English philanthropist, used attrib. in Kyrle Society, the title of a charitable society concerned with horticulture founded in 1877.
1877O. Hill Our Common Land vi. 142 My sister has founded a society, called, after the Man of Ross, the Kyrle Society, which has for its object to bring beauty into the haunts of the poor. 1888G. B. Shaw Let. 14 Sept. (1965) 195 The books distributed..by the Kyrle Society. 1913C. E. Maurice Life Octavia Hill vii. 317 Octavia..took an active share in the work of the Commons Preservation Society; but she felt that the Kyrle Society had a different function. 1964D. Owen Eng. Philanthropy iii. xvii. 496 The Kyrle Society, of which Octavia Hill's sister Miranda was the principal architect. |