Eglantyne Jebb: Save the Children founder reburied in Geneva

Save the Children founder Eglantyne Jebb has been reburied in a more prestigious Geneva cemetery.

A ceremony attended by members of her family, including her great-great-nephew Richard Jebb, took place at the Cemetery of Kings.

Ms Jebb, born in Ellesmere, co-founded the charity with her sister, Dorothy Buxton, in 1919 and died in 1928.

She was then buried in a less respected Geneva grave, after framing the city's Declaration of the Rights of the Child.

Mr Jebb previously told the BBC it was good people were "gradually increasing the level of recognition which she has deserved for years and years".

"She has been a rather forgotten figure I think," he explained.

She now shares a cemetery with the likes of Protestant reformer John Calvin and British scientist Humphry Davy.

Ms Jebb set up Save the Children in 1919 to help feed children left starving in Germany and Austria at the end of the World War One.

Later, she established the charity's international headquarters in Geneva and was involved with the newly-formed League of Nations.

This year marks 100 years since the league adopted her Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child.

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