Ladies Charity School

Ladies Charity School
Location

England
Information
Other nameLadies Hospital
TypeCharity school
Establishedc.1680
FounderWilliam Blake (merchant)
Closed1919 (1919)

The Ladies Charity School in London, England, was originally founded in Highgate c1680 as a charity school for forty orphans by the merchant William Blake (d.1696). After his death, it was revived and extended in 1702, and after relocating across London, was taken over by the Church Army as a training school in 1919.