Mrs. R. G. Burden
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second wife of the late Rev. H. N. Burden, whose life-work on behalf of the feeble-minded can never be forgotten. As Miss R. G. Williams she had been invited to help in the organization of Stoke Park Colony at its foundation in 1913 ; but the temporary help which she originally came to give led to her becoming the Superintendent of the Colony, an office which she continued to fill with wholehearted devotion
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In January, 1933, this Journal recorded the foundation of the Burden Mental Research Trust by Mrs. R. G. Burden, Warden of the National Institutions for Persons requiring Care and Control. Mrs. Burden donated the sum of ?10,000, and with the gift expressed her desire that it should primarily be devoted to problems underlying the causation and inheritance of normal and abnormal mentality, and th...
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