He did this by setting up the Royal Masonic School for Girls to provide education to the daughters of masons.
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Today his statue stands at the Royal Masonic School where he is remembered, and where his birthday, March 25, is celebrated as "Ruspini Day".
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Bartholomew Ruspini (c. 1728 – December 1813) was an Italian-born British surgeon-dentist and philanthropist in the 18th century, remembered for founding the Royal Masonic School for Girls.
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The son of Andreas Ruspini of Grumello, a minor member of a patrician family originated from Croglio, in the ancient Italian region of Como, now in the Canton Ticino (Switzerland), the chevalier Bartholomew Ruspini was born about 1728, in Zogno, near Bergamo, a place about 40 miles north-east of Milan.
In 1788, Bartholomew Ruspini and nine fellow Freemasons met to discuss plans for establishing a charitable institution for the daughters of Masons who had fallen on hard times or whose death had meant hardship for their families.
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