Biography

Toynbee Hall, established 1884, was Oxford and Cambridge Universities' Settlement in Commercial Street, Whitechapel, East London, where University graduates and undergraduates could 'live face to face with the actual conditions of crowded city life...study on the spot the evils and their remedies...learn to know the "people" as friends, and...strive to ennoble their lives and to improve their material condition' (Work for University men in east London, 1884). It was named after Arnold Toynbee (1852-83), social philosopher and economist. Ernest Harry Aves (1857-1917), Trinity College Cambridge, 1880-84, was a resident of the Hall, 1886-97, acting sub-warden, 1890-97, and Secretary of the Council of the Universities' Settlement Association, 1889-1901.

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