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'''Henry Solly''' (17 November 1813 – 27 February 1903) was an English social reformer.<ref name="ODNB">Alan Ruston, ‘[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37991 Solly,
He was the son of [[Isaac Solly]], a merchant in the [[Baltic maritime trade (c. 1400–1800)|Baltic trade]]. He became a [[Chartism|Chartist]].<ref name="ODNB" /> He supported many Radical causes, such as [[universal suffrage]], [[free education]], repeal of the [[Corn Laws]], [[co-operatives]], [[Abolitionism in the United Kingdom|anti-slavery]], and [[early closing]] for shops and [[Day One Christian Ministries|Sunday opening]] for museums.<ref name="ODNB" /> In the early 1860s he took a leading part in founding [[working men's club]]s, though as a teetotaller he did not want them to sell alcohol.<ref name="ODNB" />
In June 1868 Solly's paper, titled ‘How to deal with the Unemployed Poor of London and with its “Roughs” and Criminal Classes’ was read at a meeting of the [[Society of Arts]], chaired by the [[Bishop of London]], [[Archibald Campbell Tait|A. C. Tait]].<ref>[[Charles Loch Mowat]], ''The Charity Organisation Society. 1869–1913'' (Methuen, 1961), p. 15.</ref> This led to plans for the [[Charity Organization Society]].<ref name="ODNB" />
In 1877 Solly founded the Workmen's Social Education League. By 1879 [[John Robert Seeley]] had become president, a position he retained until 1883. In 1879 the organisation was renamed the [[Social and Political Education League]].<ref name="Wormell">{{cite book |last1=Wormell |first1=Deborah |title= Sir John Seeley and the Uses of History|url=https://archive.org/details/sirjohnseeleyuse0000worm/page/24/mode/2up|date=1980 |publisher=CUP Archive |pages=74|isbn=978-0-521-22720-9 }}</ref>
In 1884 Solly founded the Society for the Promotion of Industrial Villages. Although this was a failure, it led to Sir [[Ebenezer Howard]]'s [[Garden Cities of To-morrow|Garden City]] movement.<ref name="ODNB" />
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Solly died of a brain haemorrhage in 1903. B. T. Hall, the secretary of the [[Working Men's Club and Institute Union]], wrote a year later: "If the work that the Clubs do, if their influence on personal character and their contribution to the sum total of human happiness be correctly appreciated...then shall the investigator reckon Henry Solly amongst the constructive statesmen of our time".<ref>J. H. Wicksteed, ''Working Men's Social Clubs'' (1904), p. 214.</ref>
He spent the first half of his adult life as a [[General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches|Unitarian minister]], and after he left the profession, continued to worship at [[Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel]]. He had four daughters, one of whom married [[Philip Wicksteed]], and one son,<ref>
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