The Charter And By-laws Of The Corporation Of The Governor And Directors Of The Hospital For Poor French Protestants And Their Descendants Residing In Great Britain With Lists Of The Officers.
£10.00
Publisher
Printed for the French Hospital.
Place
La Providence, Rochester
Date
1972
Item Description
8vo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 69 pp. + [1] pp. + [7] blank leaves. Bound in original blue cloth with gilt titles and block of seal on front board. A very good copy. Ink additions to lists of officials. 1972 signature of J. Romilly Roget on first free endpaper. Illustrated by 5 black and white photographic plates. The text contains a short historical introduction, the Charter of Incorporation and a Supplemental Charter extracts from relevant wills, the Bye-Laws and a list of officials from 1718-1969 Previous editions were published in 1876 and 1892. The French Protestant Hospital in London, for poor Huguenots and their descendants, was founded in 1718 at a site at Golden Park, Finsbury, moving to Victoria Park, Hackney in 1865. Following wartime evacuation and requisitioning in 1941, a new facility was established at Horsham in 1947. The present site of almshouses at La Providence, Rochester was opened in 1959. The Hospital's historic collections are housed in a new Huguenot Museum opened in the city in 2015.
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