Appendix to Mr. Brougham's letter: : containing minutes of evidence taken before the education committee..
Bryer, Henry,printer.
Ridgway, James,publisher.
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham,Baron,1778-1868.Letter to Sir Samuel Romilly, M.P. from Henry Brougham, Esq. M.P. F.R.S. upon the abuse of charities.
Great Britain.Parliament.House of Commons.Select Committee on the Education of the Lower Orders in the Metropolis.
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,publisher.
Archibald Constable & Co.,publisher.
London: : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row; J. Ridgeway, Piccadilly; and A. Constable and Co., Edinburgh.,
1818.
An anonymous supplementary work issued to provide context for a letter written by Henry Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) to fellow Whig politician Samuel Romilly, complaining about the poor state of the nation’s charity schools. An education committee, led by Brougham, had revealed the need to improve education as well as the misuse of charitable funds in those institutions. In 1818 he brought in a bill to appoint a commission to investigate all charities in England and Wales. This initiative led to the appointment of the first paid charity commissioners to ensure that charitable bequests were correctly and efficiently applied.
Romilly, Samuel, 1757-1818.
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