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© British Association of Social Workers

Thomas William Cramp, Almoner: The Forgotten Man in a Female Occupation

ANDREW SACKVILLE

Andrew Sackville has experience of working in the Probation Service, Children's Department and Social Services Departments. Since 1975 he has lectured on various Social Policy courses at Edge Hill College, where he is currently Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Social Work, including the MA in Crime, Deviance and Social Policy. He is a former Chair of the Professional Development and Practice Committee of BASW.

Correspondence to Andrew Sackville, Social Sciences Department, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, St Helens Road, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L39 4QP.

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This paper uses archive sources to reconstruct the activities of a pioneer almoner who had the unique distinction of being the only man in what at that time was a female occupation. Against the background of an account of the development of almoning as an occupation, it examines both the hospital work and the involvement in his professional association of Mr Thomas William Cramp, the Almoner at the Metropolitan Hospital, London, from 1902 to 1923. The paper also questions why Mr Cramp has been written out of the great majority of historical accounts of almoning/medical social work.


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