Caroline Chisholm
(b. May 1808 died. March 25, 1877), British-born Australian philanthropist.
Caroline Chisholm established a home in Sydney for destitute immigrant girls, for whom she found jobs in the countryside. By the time she returned to England in 1846, she had cared for about 11,000 immigrants. She spent the years from 1846 to 1854 in England, raising funds for the immigration of whole families to Australia.
Chisholm returned to Australia in 1854 and lectured on and made inspections of the living conditions in the goldfields. Her health broke down in 1857, and in 1866 she and her family returned to England, where she was granted a government pension of £100 in 1867. Her pioneering and very useful attempts at social work in Australia had a notable influence on her contemporaries.

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