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Thomas Coram

From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008 | Copyright information

Thomas Coram , 1668?-1751, English philanthropist and colonizer. He lived for some years in Massachusetts, working as a shipbuilder. On his return to England he became (1732) a trustee of James Oglethorpe's Georgia colony and sponsored (1735) a colony in Nova Scotia for unemployed artisans. He established the London Foundling Hospital (1739), a pioneer institution of its kind.

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