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Liverpool - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | The earliest charitable foundation is the Blue Coat hospital, established in 1708, for orphans and fatherless children born within the borough. |
 | | In 1826 the corporation founded two elementary schools, one of which, the North Corporation school, was erected in part substitution for the grammar school founded by John Crosse, rector of St Nicholas Fleshshambles, London, a native of Liverpool, in 1515, and carried on by the Corporation until 1815. |
 | | Liverpool University, as University College, received its charter of incorporation in 1881, and in 1884 was admitted as a college of the Victoria University. |
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