Chimney sweep whose death changed child labour laws honoured with blue plaque

George Brewster, youngest to get plaque, died aged 11 in 1875 after getting stuck in flue, leading to law banning climbing boys'

An 11-year-old chimney sweep whose death after getting stuck in a flue led to a change in Victorian child labour laws is to become the youngest British person to be honoured with an official blue plaque.

George Brewster, a climbing boy", died in 1875 after getting jammed while cleaning the inside of a chimney at the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum in Fulbourn near Cambridge.