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5 unusual facts about Royal Masonic School


Bartholomew Ruspini

He did this by setting up the Royal Masonic School for Girls to provide education to the daughters of masons.

Today his statue stands at the Royal Masonic School where he is remembered, and where his birthday, March 25, is celebrated as "Ruspini Day".

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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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.

On the new badge is the school motto, Circumornatae ut similitudo templi, which is the Vulgate version of a phrase from Psalm 144:12: “That our daughters may be as the polished corners of the temple.”



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