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#OnThisDay in 1737 after gathering support from the wealthy and influential (including 25 dukes, 31 earls and 38 knights) Thomas Coram gave his petition for a Foundling Hospital to be built to the King’s Council. #FoundlingFact
#OnThisDay in 1747 William Hogarth presented his painting 'Moses Brought Before Pharaoh's Daughter' to the Foundling Hospital, where it was displayed in the Court Room which became a fashionable place to visit in Georgian London. #foundlingfact
RT @FoundlingMuseum"#OnThisDay in 1741 staff first arrived at the Foundling Hospital to take post. #FoundlingFact"
#FoundlingFact Charles Dickens wrote Received: a Blank Child, a piece that raised awareness of the Foundling Hospital in Victorian England.
#FoundlingFact This painting shows Dr Mead, the King's physician, who also over-saw the health of children at the Foundling Hospital.
#FoundlingFact For 10 years Handel oversaw fundraising performances of Messiah in the Hospital chapel, raising 1 million in today's money
#FoundlingFact John Brownlow was the Secretary of the Foundling Hospital from 1849 to 1872. He was a 'foundling' who had grown up there.
#FoundlingFact In 1746 Hospital Governor Thomas Emerson left £12,000 to the Foundling Hospital in his will, equivalent to £1 million today.
#FoundlingFact All babies were renamed, a number after the Hospital's founder Thomas Coram, such as the boy in this photo from 1911, age 8.
Look familiar? The stairs of girls' wing of the FH are now those in the entrance of #Ashlyns School #FoundlingFact @FoundlingMuseum https://t.co/HXF8yFxVRJ
#FoundlingFact The stairs in the Museum today were originally in the boys' wing of the Foundling Hospital, saved before it was demolished.
#FoundlingFact The stairs in the Museum today were originally in the boys' wing of the Foundling Hospital, saved before it was demolished.
#FoundlingFact This photograph shows boys marching out of the Foundling Hospital on the last day, before the building was demolished in 1926
#FoundlingFact Handel's composed 'Water Music' for a party held for King George on the Thames. It was played 3 times at the King's request!
#FoundlingFact The Pinch of Poverty by Thomas Kennington (1891) was given to the Foundling Hospital. It is part of a series on London's poor
#FoundlingFact A two week summer camp was the only holiday for children at the Foundling Hospital. They stayed in tents in the countryside.
#FoundlingFact A two week summer camp was the only holiday for children at the Foundling Hospital. They stayed in tents in the countryside.
#FoundlingFact The clock in #HettyFeatherExhib is the actual clock from the girls' schoolroom at the Foundling Hospital! Can you spot it?
#FoundlingFact Jacqueline Wilson wrote her first Hetty Feather book during a Fellowship at the Museum in 2008 @penguinkids @OfficialJWMag
#FoundlingFact In the Victorian times, mothers had to write a 'petition' to the Foundling Hospital, asking them to accept their baby
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