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4 unusual facts about Foundling Hospital


Gustavus Waltz

He sang in the chorus for the last time in a 1754 performance of (The Messiah Foundling Hospital).

Hemsworth Rural District

These represented Ackworth School, and came from the arms of the Governors of the Foundling Hospital who had owned the building before it becoming a school.

John Christopher Smith

Between 1759 and 1768 he directed the annual performances of Messiah at the Foundling Hospital, where he was organist.

No Thoroughfare

Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, (Walter Wilding), with disastrous consequences in adulthood.



see also

Foundling Museum

The Foundling Hospital Collection includes works of art by Britain's most prominent eighteenth-century artists: William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, Louis-Francois Roubiliac and many others.

The museum examines the work of the Foundling Hospital's founder Thomas Coram, as well as the artist William Hogarth and the composer George Frideric Handel, both major benefactors of the institution.

George Whatley

Whatley's portrait by an unknown painter is part of the Foundling Hospital art collection and can today be seen in the Picture Gallery at the Foundling Museum.

Hetty Feather

When Hetty is a little older, the children at the Foundling Hospital go to the Queen's Golden Jubilee.

William Villiers

William Villiers, 3rd Earl of Jersey (died 1769), English peer, a founding Governor of the Foundling Hospital