Coram, Thomas, 1668?-1751
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Name (Hebrew)
קוראם, תומאס
Name (Latin)
Coram, Thomas, 1668?-1751
Date of birth
1668
Date of death
1751-03-29
Associated country
Great Britain
United States
Field of activity
Foundlings--Care
Merchant marine
Shipping
Occupation
Philanthropists
Ship captains
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Wikipedia, viewed 16 Mar. 2016(Thomas Coram; c. 1668-29 March 1751; captain of a merchant vessel; philanthropist who created the London Foundling Hospital in Lamb's Conduit Fields, Bloomsbury to look after abandoned children; born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England; sent to sea before he was 12; in 1694 he was settled at Taunton, Massachusetts; in 1704, at the age of 52, he settled in London; in 1712 he obtained a role in Trinity House, Deptford, a private corporation that combined public responsibilities with charitable purposes; Coram died 29 March 1751, aged 83, and was buried 3 April following in the chapel of the Foundling Hospital)
- Brownlow, J. Memoranda, or, Chronicles of the Foundling Hospital, including memoirs of Captain Coram, 1847.
- DNB(Coram, Thomas, 1668?-1751)