The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the RSPCA, was founded in 1824. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, meanwhile, would not be founded for another sixty years. When a Liverpool businessman by the name of Thomas Agnew visited New York City, he was impressed by the society that had been set up there with the mission of rescuing 'little children from the cruelty and demoralization which neglect, abandonment and improper treatment engender'. Inspired, Agnew returned home and founded the Liverpool Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (the LSPCC). Other cities and towns followed suit and, in the summer of 1884, the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was founded. Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Shaftsbury, was the first President and he was joined by others including Benjamin Waugh as co-secretary and Angela Burdett-Coutts. The latter also founded Columbia Market in the late 1860s and served as Preside...