continued with great success for over a quarter of a century, and did much to diminish the vicious habits and the stigma of pauperism. Lord Shaftesbury remained a consistent supporter, and in 1884 Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, then governor-general of Canada, warmly commended the results of her pioneer system, which Thomas John Barnardo and others subsequently adopted and extended. Later life In 1895, owing to the continuous strain, Rye transferred the two institutions in Peckham and Niagara with their funds to the Church of England Waifs and Strays Society (now The Children's Society). In her farewell report of 1895 she stated that 4000 English and Scottish children then in Canada had been sent out from her home in England. She retired with her sister Elizabeth to 'Baconsthorpe,' Hemel Hempstead, where she spent the remainder of her life. There she died, after four years' suffering, of intestinal cancer on 12 November 1903, and was buried in the churchyard. See Also Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon Bessie Rayner Parkes The Langham Place Group Society for Promoting the Employment of Women References Further reading Attribution External links Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online Young Immigrants to Canada Female Middle Class Emigration Society, Women's Library , Appendix 1.4 British Home Child Group International English social justice activists 1829 births 1903 deaths English women activists English philanthropists British social reformers Child welfare in the United Kingdom Child welfare in Canada History of women in Canada 19th-century British philanthropists