An account of the incorporated society for clothing, maintaining, and educating poor orphans of clergymen, of the established church,. until of age to be put apprentice; with the constitution, bye-laws, and regulations of the same, and a list of the governors and officers, &c. &c. Under the patronage of His Majesty.
Society for Maintaining and Educating Poor Orphans of the Clergy
Category
Books
Date
1824
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3214953
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],36,84p.,. ill. ;. 8vo., 207mm x 129mm. Former shelfmark: PMF/4/11. Provenance: The list of members for 1824 includes: Stamford and Warrington, Right Hon. Earl of, and Stamford and Warrington, Rt. Hon. Count. Dow. [i.e.: George Harry Grey, 6th Earl of Stamford (1765-1845) and Henrietta Cavendish Bentinck (1737-1827), from 1819 Dowager Countess of Stamford] as subscribers of £1 1s 0d. The 5th Earl of Stamford served as a Steward at the anniversary dinner in 1796 (see p.74). Binding: Nineteenth-century full printed buff paper, bearing an engraving of the south front of one of the orphan schools; stab-stitched as issued.
Makers and roles
Society for Maintaining and Educating Poor Orphans of the Clergy