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'''Gillian Wagner'''
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| birth_name = Gillian Mary Millicent Graham
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| birth_place = [[London]], England
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| occupation = Writer and philanthropist
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Gillian Wagner DBE is a British writer, philanthropist and social administrator, and formerly chair of the children’s charity [[Barnardo’s]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp143852/dame-gillian-nee-graham-lady-wagner|title=Interview|last=|first=|date=|website=National Portrait Gallery|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=16 November 2018}}</ref> the [[Thomas Coram Foundation]] and the [[Carnegie Trust]]. She has published biographical and historical works, as well as reports on social care.
'''Dame Gillian Mary Millicent Wagner''' (née '''Graham'''; born 25 October 1927) is a British writer, philanthropist and social administrator, and formerly chair of the children’s charity [[Barnardo’s]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp143852/dame-gillian-nee-graham-lady-wagner|title=Interview|website=National Portrait Gallery|archive-url=|archive-date=|accessdate=16 November 2018}}</ref> the [[Thomas Coram Foundation]] and the [[Carnegie Trust]]. She has published biographical and historical works, as well as reports on social care.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Residential care: a positive choice; report of the Independent Review of Residential Care - Social Care Online|url=https://www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/residential-care-a-positive-choice-report-of-the-independent-review-of-residential-care/r/a11G00000017uXsIAI|access-date=2020-09-02|website=www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Glickman|first=Gabriel|date=2006-02-01|title=Thomas Coram, Gent, 1668–1751|url=https://academic.oup.com/ehr/article/CXXI/490/314/458550|journal=The English Historical Review|language=en|volume=CXXI|issue=490|pages=314–315|doi=10.1093/ehr/cej080|issn=0013-8266}}</ref>


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==Early life and education==
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Gillian Mary Millicent Graham was born in London in 1927,<ref>{{cite book |title=Who's Who 2018 |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-38448 |publisher=Who's Who |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U38448 |isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 |accessdate=17 November 2018}}</ref> the daughter of Major Henry Archibald Roger Graham and Hon. Margaret Beatrice Lopes. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and the University of Geneva, and later did a diploma in social administration at the [[London School of Economics]], and subsequently a Ph.D., ''Dr Barnardo and the Charity Organisation Society: A reassessment of the Arbitration Case of 1877''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.history.ac.uk/history-online/theses/thesis/dr-barnardo-and-charity-organization-society-reassessment-arbitration-case-1877|title=Dr. Barnardo and the Charity Organization Society|last=|first=|date=|website=History Online|archive-url=|archive-date=|accessdate=17 November 2018}}</ref>


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==Works and themes==
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'''Early life and education'''
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Her 1979 biography of Dr Barnardo was the ‘first frank account of [his] character and career,<ref>{{cite journal|title=Review|last=|first=|journal=Medical History|year=1980|volume=24|issue=1|page=115|s2cid=31874073|doi=10.2307/202997|jstor=202997|pmc=1082644}}</ref> and ''Thomas Coram, Gent.'' has been described as ‘a much-needed biography of this early pioneer of children’s charity.’<ref>{{cite web |title=Review |url=https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/95508/V63-I1-09-Hendershot.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |website=The OAKTrust Digital Repository |accessdate=16 November 2018}}</ref> The exception to this is her most recent book, ''Miss Palmer’s Diary'', a biography of her ancestor Ellen Palmer.


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==Publications==
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Gillian Mary Millicent Graham was born in London in 1927,<ref>{{cite web |title=Who's Who 2018 |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-38448/version/4 |website=Who's Who |accessdate=17 November 2018}}</ref> and educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and the University of Geneva. She later did a diploma in social administration at the London School of Economics, and subsequently a Ph.D., 'Dr Barnardo and the Charity Organisation Society: A reassessment of the Arbitration Case of 1877'.
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*''The Camera and Dr Barnardo'' (with Valerie Lloyd) 1974, National Portrait Gallery Publications, {{ISBN|0904017125}}
*''Barnardo,'' 1979, Littlehampton Book Services, {{ISBN|0297775618}}
*''Children of the Empire,'' 1982, Littlehampton Book Services, {{ISBN|0297780476}}
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*''The Chocolate Conscience,'' 1987, Chatto & Windus, {{ISBN|070112475X}}
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*''Thomas Coram, Gent.: 1668–1751,'' 2015, Boydell Press, {{ISBN|9781783270606}}
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*''Miss Palmer’s Diary,'' 2017, I.B. Tauris, {{ISBN|1788310063}}


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===Reports===
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*''A Positive Choice (Independent Review of Residential Care): A Guide to the Wagner Report'' 1988, National Institute for Social Work, ASIN B001NTUWO6
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*''Residential Care, Vol. 2: The Research Reviewed (with the National Institute for Social Care)'' 1988, Stationery Office Books, {{ISBN|0117010634}}
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*''Training for Social Care: Achieving Standards for the Undervalued Service'', 1998, Policy Studies Institute, {{ISBN|1900909022}}


==References==
'''Career'''
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Gillian Wagner began her career as a secretary and joined the children’s charity Barnardo’s in 1969, becoming the first woman to chair the finance committee, and then to chair the whole organisation. She was also the first woman to chair the Thomas Coram Foundation charity.


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In 1973, she was granted the Freedom of the City of London.
[[Category:1927 births]]

[[Category:Living people]]
In 1994, with support from the National Institute of Social Work, she founded the [http://www.residentialforum.com/ Residential Forum],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.residentialforum.com/|title=Home page|last=|first=|date=|website=Residential Forum|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=16 November 2018}}</ref> which aims to ‘promote the achievement of high standards of care for children and adults in nursing homes, residential homes and schools…’
[[Category:Alumni of the London School of Economics]]

[[Category:Philanthropists from London]]
In 1995 she was created a [[Dame Commander of the British Empire]] for her services to social administration.
[[Category:British women philanthropists]]
[[Category:British women writers]]

[[Category:Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire]]
'''Personal life'''

In 1953 Gillian Graham married Anthony Wagner, later the [[Garter King of Arms]]. She has a daughter, the publisher [[Lucy McCarraher]], and two sons, painter [[Roger Wagner]] and entrepreneur Mark Wagner.

She lives in London and Aldeburgh, Suffolk.


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'''Works and themes'''

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Given that Dame Gillian’s career has been devoted to scrutinising and improving the quality of care in a variety of settings, it is scarcely surprising that most of her work examines the context, culture and individuals that have shaped residential care for children over the last five hundred years. Her 1979 biography of Dr Barnardo was the ‘first frank account of [his] character and career,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ae0c/b824a5adc0fe64ba43f40c5f1cf64d7ed583.pdf|title=review|last=|first=|date=|website=Semantic Scholar|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=16 November 2018}}</ref> and ''Thomas Coram, Gent.'' has been described as ‘a much-needed biography of this early pioneer of children’s charity.’<ref>{{cite web |title=Review |url=https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/95508/V63-I1-09-Hendershot.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |website=The OAKTrust Digital Repository |accessdate=16 November 2018}}</ref> The exception to this is her most recent book, ''Miss Palmer’s Diary'', a biography of her ancestor Ellen Palmer.


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'''Publications'''

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''The Camera and Dr Barnardo'' (with Valeria Lloyd) 1974

''Barnardo'' 1979

''Children of the Empire'' 1982

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''The Chocolate Conscience'' 1987

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''Thomas Coram, Gent.: 1668–1751'' 2015

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''Miss Palmer’s Diary'' 2017



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''Reports''

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''A Positive Choice (Independent Review of Residential Care): A Guide to the Wagner Report'' 1988

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''Residential Care, Vol. 2: The Research Reviewed (with the National Institute for Social Care)'' 1988

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''Training for Social Care: Achieving Standards for the Undervalued Service'' (1998)

Latest revision as of 09:39, 29 October 2023

Dame Gillian Wagner
BornGillian Mary Millicent Graham
(1927-10-25) 25 October 1927 (age 97)
London, England
OccupationWriter and philanthropist
NationalityBritish

Dame Gillian Mary Millicent Wagner (née Graham; born 25 October 1927) is a British writer, philanthropist and social administrator, and formerly chair of the children’s charity Barnardo’s,[1] the Thomas Coram Foundation and the Carnegie Trust. She has published biographical and historical works, as well as reports on social care.[2][3]

Early life and education

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Gillian Mary Millicent Graham was born in London in 1927,[4] the daughter of Major Henry Archibald Roger Graham and Hon. Margaret Beatrice Lopes. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and the University of Geneva, and later did a diploma in social administration at the London School of Economics, and subsequently a Ph.D., Dr Barnardo and the Charity Organisation Society: A reassessment of the Arbitration Case of 1877.[5]

Works and themes

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Her 1979 biography of Dr Barnardo was the ‘first frank account of [his] character and career,[6] and Thomas Coram, Gent. has been described as ‘a much-needed biography of this early pioneer of children’s charity.’[7] The exception to this is her most recent book, Miss Palmer’s Diary, a biography of her ancestor Ellen Palmer.

Publications

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  • The Camera and Dr Barnardo (with Valerie Lloyd) 1974, National Portrait Gallery Publications, ISBN 0904017125
  • Barnardo, 1979, Littlehampton Book Services, ISBN 0297775618
  • Children of the Empire, 1982, Littlehampton Book Services, ISBN 0297780476
  • The Chocolate Conscience, 1987, Chatto & Windus, ISBN 070112475X
  • Thomas Coram, Gent.: 1668–1751, 2015, Boydell Press, ISBN 9781783270606
  • Miss Palmer’s Diary, 2017, I.B. Tauris, ISBN 1788310063

Reports

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  • A Positive Choice (Independent Review of Residential Care): A Guide to the Wagner Report 1988, National Institute for Social Work, ASIN B001NTUWO6
  • Residential Care, Vol. 2: The Research Reviewed (with the National Institute for Social Care) 1988, Stationery Office Books, ISBN 0117010634
  • Training for Social Care: Achieving Standards for the Undervalued Service, 1998, Policy Studies Institute, ISBN 1900909022

References

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  1. ^ "Interview". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Residential care: a positive choice; report of the Independent Review of Residential Care - Social Care Online". www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  3. ^ Glickman, Gabriel (1 February 2006). "Thomas Coram, Gent, 1668–1751". The English Historical Review. CXXI (490): 314–315. doi:10.1093/ehr/cej080. ISSN 0013-8266.
  4. ^ Who's Who 2018. Who's Who. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U38448. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  5. ^ "Dr. Barnardo and the Charity Organization Society". History Online. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  6. ^ "Review". Medical History. 24 (1): 115. 1980. doi:10.2307/202997. JSTOR 202997. PMC 1082644. S2CID 31874073.
  7. ^ "Review" (PDF). The OAKTrust Digital Repository. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
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