Mary Joynson

Mary Grace Joynson (5 December 1924 – 13 April 2013) was a British childcare worker, the director of Barnardo's, the UK's largest children's charity Barnardo's, from 1973 to 1984.[1]

Joynson was born in Bingham, Nottinghamshire, the youngest of three children of a Methodist minister and his teacher wife. She was educated at Trinity Hall School, Southport, and the London School of Economics.[1]

She was succeeded as chief executive of Barnardo's by her deputy, Roger Singleton.[2]

References
  1. Terry Philpot. "Mary Joynson obituary | Society". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  2. "Barnardo's moderniser". Community Care. Retrieved 11 May 2016.


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