UCL BLOOMSBURY PROJECT

History

It was founded in November 1849 as a home for gentlewomen in reduced circumstances, who paid 7s 6d per week in 1851 and 10s per week 1861 in rent and board to live there (The British Metropolis in 1851: A Classified Guide to London, 1851; Sampson Low, The Charities of London in 1861, 1862)

Its Hon. Secretary was firstly Jonathan Jones (of 35 Great Coram Street in 1850 and 39 Brunswick Square in 1851), and subsequently (by 1862) Rev. Alfred J. Buss (Sampson Low, The Charities of London, 1850; The British Metropolis in 1851: A Classified Guide to London, 1851; Sampson Low, The Charities of London in 1861, 1862)

Its Treasurer during this time was Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, MP (Sampson Low, The Charities of London, 1850; Sampson Low, The Charities of London in 1861, 1862); Kinnaird was also later involved in the foundation of the Home for Working Boys

Both Rev. Buss and Arthur Kinnaird were still working for the Home for Gentlewomen in 1872 (The Times, 28 December 1872)

Its capacity at Queen Square was 60 women, according to its advertisement in The British Metropolis in 1851: A Classified Guide to London, 1851; its advertisements in The Times give a more precise figure of 57

Queen Victoria extended Royal patronage to it in 1851 (The Times, 12 March 1851)

Its last advertisement in The Times appears to be its Christmas appeal of 1872 (The Times, 28 December 1872); the premises had become part of the new Chandler Wing of the National Hospital by March 1876 (The Times, 14 March 1876)

It no longer exists

It no longer exists