Rosa Mary Barrett (1855–1936) was an English-born Irish social reformer, educationalist and suffragist; her brother was the physicist

William F. Barrett Sir William Fletcher Barrett (10 February 1844 in Kingston, Jamaica – 26 May 1925) was an English physicist and parapsychologist. Life He was born in Jamaica where his father, William Garland Barrett, who was an amateur naturalist, Congre ...

. Barrett moved to Monkstown, Co. Dublin and then to Kingstown (now

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), Co. Dublin, in Ireland. In 1879 she helped set up a committee for the establishment of a care facility for children, effectively a creche allowing women to enter the workforce. It eventually led to the establishment of ''The Cottage Home for Little Children'' which housed Protestant children. To avoid accusations of proselytising, the home did not accept Catholic children. Rosa Barrett founded the Irish section of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in 1889.Rosa Mary Barrett (1855-1936)
/ref> In the 1901 census she lists her religion as a Congregationalist, her grandfather being a Congregationalist minister.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Barrett, Rosa Mary 1855 births 1936 deaths British philanthropists Education activists Irish suffragists National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children people Social reformers