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from Dungeness Lighthouse
in Kent to Folkestone but was
forced to give up.
In 1894 he began giving
free swimming lessons to
Islington ‘pauper children’.
‘The real value of a
philanthropic measure of this
kind is to be found in the fact
that many of these children
will probably enter callings
which will expose them in a
special degree to the risk of
drowning,’ commented The