Keswick Museum and Art Gallery District was bought for £160 for the Trustees of the Keswick Museum. 1882 Fitz Park Trust formed with the intention of providing space for the use of inhabitants of Keswick and its neighbourhood, and the visitors thereto, as a pleasure ground and a place of recreation. 1884 Canon Rawnsley, Vicar of Crosthwaite founds the Keswick School of Industrial Art 1886 Mr John Postlethwaite replaced Dr Knight as Honorary Curator of the Museum. 1887 Fitz Park was opened to the public with support from Henry and Thomas Hewetson. 1895 The National Trust was founded by Canon Rawnsley, Octavia Hill and Robert
Environmentalism in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy". Systematic efforts on behalf of the environment only began in the late 19th century; it grew out of the amenity movement in Britain in the 1870s, which was a reaction to industrialization, the growth of cities, and worsening air and water pollution. Starting with the formation of the Commons Preservation Society in 1865, the movement championed rural preservation against the encroachments of industrialisation. Robert Hunter, solicitor for the society, worked with Hardwicke Rawnsley, Octavia Hill, and John Ruskin to lead