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	Thomas Coram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As a great philanthopist Coram was appalled by the many abandoned, homeless children living in the streets of London.
		He painted a famous portrait of Thomas Coram (1740; now Foundling Museum, London; reproduced in stipple by William Nutter [1754-1802] for R. Cribb in 1796), and, together with some of his fellow artists, decorated the Governors' Court Room.
		The book was adapted into a play by Helen Edmundson, which had its world premiere at the Royal National Theatre in London in November 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Coram (296 words)

	Thomas Coram (1668-1751)
		Coram was appalled by the scale of abandoned, homeless children to be found on the streets of London and on October 17, 1739 he obtained a Royal Charter granted by George II establishing a "hospital for the maintenance and education of exposed and deserted young children".
		Even though Thomas Coram opened his foundling hospital in 1741 because he couldn't bear to see the dying babies lying in the gutters and rotting in the dung-heaps of London, by the 1890s dead babies were still a common sight in London streets
		Thomas Coram died in 1751 but his name lives on today in the Thomas Coram Research Unit a multidisciplinary research unit within the Institute of Education and a designated research unit of the Department of Health.
	www.thedorsetpage.com /people/thomas_coram.htm (373 words)

	Thomas Coram Foundation for Children - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, London, formerly known as the Foundling Hospital, currently named the Coram Family, was founded in 1739 by the philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram who was appalled to see abandoned babies and children starving and dying in the streets of London.
		Popular artists of the 18th century became patrons and governors of the Foundling Hospital and donated some of their work to the foundation.
		The work with vulnerable children was continued by the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, now called the Coram Family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Coram_Foundation_for_Children (230 words)

	WELCOME TO CORAM FAMILY
		We are delighted to announce that Jamila Gavin's Whitbread prize-winning novel, Coram Boy, has been adapted to the stage by the National Theatre and is
		The story uses the extraordinary accounts of some of the children who lived in Thomas Coram's Foundling Hospital during the eighteenth century.
		The report is available in summary or in it's entirety.
	www.coram.org.uk (201 words)

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