Foundling Hospital
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The Foundling Hospital was a children's home in St Pancras, London, England. It was founded in 1739 by the philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram. It was established for the "education and maintenance
1753 engraving of the Foundling Hospital
The Foundling Hospital was first located in Hatton Garden
The same statues from the Foundling Hospital located in Hatton Garden are above the side door of the near St Andrew Holborn. Thomas Coram, founder of the Foundlings' Hospital is buried here, his remains were translated from his foundation in the 1960s.
William Hogarth's portrait of Thomas Coram.
Elizabeth Brownrigg
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Elizabeth Brownrigg was an 18th-century English murderer. Her victim, Mary Clifford, was one of her domestic servants, who died from cumulative injuries and associated infected wounds. As a result of
Foundling Hospital
…to the last degree of vice [i.e. prostitution] by being unable to retrieve the first slip." There were some unfortunate incidents, such as the case of Elizabeth Brownrigg (1720–1767), a severely abusive Fetter Lane midwife who mercilessly whipped and otherwise maltreated her adolescent female apprentice domestic servants…
Elizabeth Brownrigg in prison
Illustration of Elizabeth Brownrigg flogging Mary Clifford from the Newgate Calendar
Portrait of Elizabeth Brownrigg