| LC control no. | n 88255394 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Coram, Thomas, 1668?-1751 |
| See also | Founded corporate body: Foundling Hospital (London, England) |
| Associated country | Great Britain England United States |
| Associated place | Taunton (Mass.) |
| Birth date | 1668 |
| Death date | 1751 |
| Place of birth | Lyme Regis (England) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Shipping Merchant marine Foundlings--Care |
| Affiliation | Trinity House (London, England) |
| Profession or occupation | Ship captains Philanthropists |
| Found in | Brownlow, J. Memoranda, or, Chronicles of the Foundling Hospital, including memoirs of Captain Coram, 1847. DNB (Coram, Thomas, 1668?-1751) 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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