Claim: Thomas Coram was a philanthropist and the son of a master mariner from England.
Evidence: Captain Thomas Coram (c. 1668 – 29 March 1751) was a philanthropist who created the London Foundling Hospital in Lamb's Conduit Fields, Bloomsbury, to look after abandoned children. His father is believed to have been a master mariner. Thomas Coram was born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England.