"The Grasshopper" in Lombard Street

Author: John Biddulph Martin

Publisher:

Published: 1892

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13:

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Martins Bank was a London private bank, trading under the symbol of “The Grasshopper”, that could trace its origins back to Thomas Gresham and the London goldsmiths, known as Martin's Bank from 1890.

Christ's Hospital of London, 1552-1598
Christ's Hospital of London, 1552-1598

Author: Carol Kazmierczak Manzione

Publisher: Susquehanna University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780945636717

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Christ's Hospital was not established as a foundling hospital but as an orphanage and school for "the fatherless children & other poor men's children that were not able to keep them..." It was not a warehouse for unwanted children, but a safe place where they received more than just physical care. The goal of Christ's Hospital was to return these children back to society as useful and productive members. It is a unique institution in that it also performed as an agent of general poor relief, giving money and pensions to elderly and sick adults, even if they were childless. It appears that Christ's, in concert with St.