Books & Prints Sale
to include "The Vessey Collection"

11am on 17th January 2008

Advocates for Children

The library of the late Dr David Vessey is being auctioned to raise funds for the establishment of the charity ‘Advocates for Children’

The Charity will provide a range of advice, support and representation for children with physical and learning disabilities aged between four and sixteen. It will pioneer a new and uniquely holistic approach to each child’s case.

Advocates will work with parents seeking statements or appropriate special educational needs provision for their children, or those facing a Special Educational Needs Tribunal.

The proceeds of this auction will enable the charity to begin its work, to continue to fundraise for the benefit of many more children, and to flourish in the future.

Dr David Vessey

A child prodigy, David Vessey started collecting books at the age of eight. It remained a life-long passion.

He studied at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge and went on to become a world-renowned classical scholar, and a published poet on both sides of the Atlantic. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in recognition of his contribution to scholarship.

It was David Vessey’s wish that, after his death, his book collection be auctioned to enable Mrs Gloria Vessey, a barrister, to expand her own free representation work for children with disabilities.

The Charity’s uniquely holistic approach to each child was inspired by the lifetime’s work of David Vessey’s late father-in-law, Peter Talbot, whose work with children Dr Vessey also wished to pay tribute to. This unique auction, and the exceptional children it will help, is a truly fitting memorial to a very remarkable man.

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