What is the Bloomsbury Project?
The Leverhulme-funded UCL Bloomsbury Project was established to investigate 19th-century Bloomsbury’s development from swampy rubbish-dump to centre of intellectual life
Led by Professor Rosemary Ashton, with Dr Deborah Colville as Researcher, the Project has traced the origins, Bloomsbury locations, and reforming significance of hundreds of progressive and innovative institutions
Many of the extensive archival resources relating to these institutions have also been identified and examined by the Project, and Bloomsbury’s developing streets and squares have been mapped and described
This website is a gateway to the information gathered and edited by Project members during the Project’s lifetime, 1 October 2007–30 April 2011, with the co-operation of Bloomsbury’s institutions, societies, and local residents
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Bloomsbury and the Bloomsbury Project
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Ware family
a summary of their Bloomsbury connections
Martin Ware (1819–1895) was heavily involved with the Compton Place Ragged School and worked with poor families in the King’s Cross and Cromer Street area
His brother Charles Ware (1820–1908) worked at the St Giles Ragged School and had a commission in the Bloomsbury Rifles
And another brother, Joseph Ware (1822–1860), was also involved in local Ragged School work whilst living in Russell Square
For more general biographical information about the Ware family, see the administrative history of the Ware family papers at Surrey History Centre, Woking, ref. 1487, online via The National Archives (opens in new window)
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