A view of a memorial tablet to Mary Ward at the Mary Ward House Conference and Exhibition Centre at 5 Tavistock Place, Bloomsbury. The tablet bears a relief of Mary Ward in profile, facing left, with the words: "1851 + 1920 MARY WARD wife of Humphrey Ward Known to all the world as a writer, student & critic, she gave the influence of a noble character to many projects for the well-being of the young. Here were inaugurated by her zeal & wisdom, schools for invalid children, & play centres, afterwards adopted in other Cities. Here too she organised clubs & societies where in fellowship , mind with mind, workers of this City turned their thoughts to things humane." Dating from 1896-98, the centre at 5 Tavistock Place was Grade I listed in 1960 as the National Institute for Social Work and Training, listing number 1378962. It was built in the Arts and Crafts style for the Passmore Edwards Settlement, named after its funder, the philanthropist John Passmore Edwards, as the centre of a thriving social and community network. The Settlement Movement began in the 1880s in the United States and England to create places where middle class volunteers would share knowledge and culture with their low-income neighbours. In 1920, the centre was renamed the Mary Ward Settlement after Mary Augusta Ward (1851-1920), a Victorian novelist and social reformer. Dating from 1903, the separate Mary Ward Centre at 9 Tavistock Place was Grade II listed in 1974, listing number 1378963.