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Robert Geffrye

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continues to maintain two almshouses in Hampshire – one at Hook, built in 1976 and enlarged in 1987, and one at Basingstoke that opened in 1984; they give sheltered housing to 125 retired people of limited means. There is also a Sir Robert Geffrye's School in the village of
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On his death Geffrye left about £10,000 divided in legacies to friends, relatives, hospitals and clergymen's widows, and in establishing certain trusts under the charge of the
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the Geffrye Museum), which has displays scenes of domestic life from 1600 to the present day. New almshouses were built at
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in March 1692–3, Geffrye was a significant trader in tobacco, part of whose investment was in the
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Married in 1651 to Priscilla (died 1676), daughter of Luke Cropley, a City lawyer and brother of
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A service was to be provided twice daily in the 22:The statue of Alderman Sir Robert Geffrye at the 548:Masters of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers 281:"Museum to keep slave-trader statue on building" 133:, Sir Robert and Lady Geffrye had no children. 8: 329:(online ed.). Oxford University Press. 326:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 202: 231: 229: 227: 7: 210:Salisbury, Josh (17 November 2021). 56:Geffrye was born to poor parents at 79:. 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Index


Museum of the Home
John Nost
Lord Mayor of London
Landrake
Saltash
Cornwall
London
East India
merchant
Lime Street
City of London
Master Ironmonger
knighted
Sheriff of London
Lord Mayor of London
President
Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals
Atlantic slave trade
slave ship
Sir John Cropley
Worshipful Company of Ironmongers
church of St. Dionis Backchurch
St Erney and Landrake
almshouses
Shoreditch
Museum of the Home
Mottingham
Greater London Council
Sir Robert Geffrye's Trust

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