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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, Henry (1813–1903)]’, '' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 , accessed 18 April 2010.</ref> [[William Beveridge]] said of him: "He was a restless, inventive, constructive spirit, part author of at least three large living movements; charity organisation, working men's clubs, and garden cities".<ref>William Beveridge, ''Voluntary Action. A Report on the Methods of Social Advance'' (George Allen & Unwin, 1948), p. 170.</ref>
He was the son of [[Isaac Solly]], a merchant in the [[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 [[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" />
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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>{{Cite web | url=http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/henrysolly.html | title=Henry Solly}}</ref> who wrote the biography of [[Henry Morley]]. One of his students, Anna Evans, who stayed with his family
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