Editing Thomas John Barnardo (section)

==Personal life==
In June 1873, Barnardo married Sara Louise Elmslie (1842–1944), known as Syrie, the daughter of an [[underwriter]] for [[Lloyd's of London]]. Syrie shared her husband's interests in evangelism and social work. The couple settled at Mossford Lodge, [[Essex]], where they had seven children, three of whom died in early childhood. A fourth child, Marjorie, had [[Down syndrome]].<ref>{{cite book |title=A William Somerset Maugham encyclopedia |last=Rogal |first=Samuel J. |year=1997 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-29916-2 |page=5 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H0MqigagKTkC&pg=PA5 |chapter=Barnardo, Sara Louise (Syrie) Elmslie }}</ref>

One daughter, [[Syrie Maugham|Gwendolyn Maud Syrie]] (1879–1955), known as Syrie like her mother, was married to wealthy businessman [[Henry Wellcome]], and later to the writer [[Somerset Maugham]], and became a socially prominent London interior designer.

Barnardo died of [[angina pectoris]] in London on 19 September 1905,{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.goldonian.org/barnardo/drb_funeral.htm |title=The Public Funeral |date=2003 |work=The Goldonian Web |publisher=Goldings The William Baker Memorial Technical School for Boys |access-date=26 October 2011}}</ref> and was buried in front of Cairns House, [[Barkingside]], Essex. The house is now the head office of the children's charity he founded, [[Barnardo's]].<ref name="EL0608">{{cite news|url=http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/Launch.aspx?referral=other&pnum=&refresh=3Ex0Hy14j5C1&EID=52357006-6cf2-46b7-874f-a85febe6a2c6&skip=true|title=The birthplace of Barnardo's|last=Wrightman|first=Sara|date=June 2008|work=Essex Life|publisher=Archant|pages=88–89 |access-date=3 February 2009}} {{subscription required}}</ref> A [[Dr Barnardo's Memorial|memorial]] stands outside Cairn's House.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1081001|desc=Dr Barnado's Memorial at Barnardo's}}</ref>

===Alleged Jack the Ripper suspect===
At the time of the [[Whitechapel murders]], due to the supposed medical expertise of [[Jack the Ripper]], various doctors in the area were suspected. Long after his death, Barnardo was named a possible suspect by Donald McCormick (1970) and Gary Rowlands (2005).<ref>{{cite book|title=The Mammoth Book Of Jack The Ripper|first = Maxim |last=Jakubowski|publisher = Little, Brown Book Group |date= 2008|isbn = 9781849015264}}</ref> Rowlands proposed that Barnardo's lonely childhood and religious zeal led him to kill prostitutes to clear them from the streets and to encourage them to place their children into his care. Only because of an accident in a swimming pool that left him deaf shortly after murdering Mary Kelly did he stop killing, as being deaf left him more vulnerable to capture. 

There is no evidence that Barnardo committed the murders,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.casebook.org/ripper_media/book_reviews/non-fiction/cjmorley/12.html |title=Dr Thomas Barnardo|last= Morley|website= Casebook: Jack the Ripper|first = Christopher J. }}</ref> and critics of this theory have also pointed out that his age and appearance did not match any of the descriptions of the Ripper.<ref>Eddleston, John J. (2001). ''Jack the Ripper: An Encyclopedia''. ABC-CLIO. p. 197. {{ISBN|1-57607-414-5}}</ref> Barnardo was well known in the East End, however, and would visit cheap boarding houses to talk to underprivileged customers. During one of these visits, he spoke to a group at 32 Flower and Dean Street, Whitechapel, during the period of the murders. One of the women drunkenly cried, 'We're all up to no good and no-one cares what becomes of us; perhaps some of us will be killed next.' He later viewed the body of [[Elizabeth Stride]], Jack the Ripper's third [[canonical]] victim, at the mortuary and confirmed that she had been among those present.