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The Foundling Hospital (formally the Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children) was a children's home in London, England, founded in 1739 by the philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram. It was established for the "education and maintenance of exposed and deserted young children."
In 1730 Thomas Coram approached aristocratic women with a petition to support the establishment of a Foundling Hospital, which he would present to King George II. [1] [2]The women who signed were of aristocratic backgrounds, and Coram kept a list in his pocket memorandum book, captioned 'An Exact Account when each Lady of Charity Signed their Declaration'. [2]
The entrance to the Coram Campus. The Thomas Coram Foundation for Children is a large children's charity in London operating under the name Coram.It was founded by eighteenth-century philanthropist Captain Thomas Coram who campaigned to establish a charity that would care for the high numbers of abandoned babies in London, setting up the Foundling Hospital in 1739 at Lamb's Conduit Fields in ...
He also composed an anthem specially for a performance at the Hospital, now called the Foundling Hospital Anthem. [23] The Foundling Hospital charity continues today and is known as Coram. [24] The original site is also home to a seven-acre children's park and play area, Coram's Fields, which refuses entry to adults unaccompanied by children ...
Frances' participation led to the involvement of her son, William Byron, 5th Baron Byron (1722–1798), in the Foundling Hospital in October 1739, who is listed, alongside Hogarth, as a prominent governor. However it is considered that William's role of authority was unsympathetic to the cause, as he is notoriously represented as "the 'wicked ...
Charlotte Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (née Lady Charlotte Finch, c. 1693 – 21 January 1773) was the second wife of Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset.Lady Charlotte was the first of twenty-one 'ladies of quality and distinction' [1] [2] who signed Thomas Coram's first petition, presented to King George II in 1735, calling for the establishment of the Foundling Hospital.
Sister Irene (born Catherine Rosamund Fitzgibbon; May 12, 1823 – August 14, 1896) was an American nun who founded the New York Foundling Hospital in 1869, at a time when abandoned infants were routinely sent to almshouses with the sick and insane.
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