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Jacques de Gastigny

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Himself a refugee in Holland, Gastigny wanted to provide for the Huguenot refugees in England. He was a member of the French Committee responsible for distributing the Royal Bounty to the refugees. In his will dated April 1708, he originally left £1,000 (equivalent to £202,945 in 2023) to benefit
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He returned with William to England, although apparently, along with other Dutch courtiers of the new king, he did not wish to stay there. Many of those who followed William from Holland feared they would not be given positions at English court, and would be resented by the English.
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The funds were allowed to accrue interest. Philippe Ménard, executor of Gastigny's estate, solicited for additional funds through public subscriptions for the hospital, known as
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recorded in his diary that Gastigny told him on 23 March 1689 "that he did not want to stay in London, and that most of the hatred and anger befell the favourite."
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However, Gastigny was appointed Master of the Buckhounds to King William on 9 September 1689, staying in this position until 1698. He later appeared on the
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Gastigny was a Huguenot military refugee who fled to Holland following the
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William, then Prince of Orange. He followed William to England after the
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Gastigny Place, located near the original hospital location in
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poor French Protestants – £500 for an infirmary and £500 for a
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Agnew, Rev. David C. A. (David Carnegie Andrew) (1886).
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Index


Pierre Mignard
Huguenot
Master of the Buckhounds
William III
French Protestant Hospital
Finsbury
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
stadtholder
Glorious Revolution
Battle of the Boyne
Constantijn Huygens Jr.
Patent Rolls
French Hospital (La Providence)
pest house
Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway
Pierre Mignard
Rochester, Kent
St Luke's Parish
Moorfields Eye Hospital
"Money left by Jacques de Gastigny was used to build the first voluntary hospital in England"


The Quiet conquest: the Huguenots 1685-1985
Protestant Exiles from France, Chiefly in the Reign of Louis XIV: Or, The Huguenot Refugees and Their Descendants in Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2
Family, Culture and Society in the Diary of Constantijn Huygens Jr, Secretary to Stadholder-King William of Orange
ISBN
978-9004250956
"The Royal Buckhounds and their Masters"
Family Names and Their Story

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