Kingsley Fairbridge

Kingsley Fairbridge
Born
Kingsley Ogilvie Fairbridge

(1885-05-05)5 May 1885
Grahamstown, South Africa
Died19 July 1924(1924-07-19) (aged 39)
Perth, Western Australia
Alma materExeter College, Oxford
Spouse
Ruby Whitmore
(m. 1911)
Children4, including Rhodes

Kingsley Ogilvie Fairbridge (5 May 1885 – 19 July 1924) was the founder of a child emigration scheme from Britain to its colonies and the Fairbridge Schools. His life work was the founding of the "Society for the Furtherance of Child Emigration to the Colonies", which was afterwards incorporated as the "Child Emigration Society" and ultimately the "Fairbridge Society".


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