Charities bequeathed after 1837 and entrusted to the Ludlow Municipal Charity Trustees and their successors
Margaret Phillips, 1838
Margaret Phillips was a native of Ludlow, who later lived at Clifton, Bristol. She left £1,000 to `the Upper-almshouses' and £500 to 'the Lower-almshouses'. She left another £1,000 to endow a lying-in charity for expectant mothers in poor circumstances.
Thomas Bolfteld, 1843
Thomas Botfield was an iron master from Coalbrook-dale, who purchased the lordship of Hopton Wafers and set himself up as a land-owning country gentleman. He left money for the poor.
James Brettel Vaughan, 1848
James Brettel Vaughan was a landowner from Burway, in Bromfield parish, who lived at no. 14 Castle Street, Ludlow. He left E100 to provide Christmas bread for poor widows.
Emily Felton, 1871
Emily Felton was one of the daughters of William Felton, the Ludlow radical and printer. She left money for the poor.
Maria Nightingale, 1884
Maria Nightingale was a Ludlow resident who left many generous bequests, including E2,000 for the parish church.
Edmund Jones, 1892
Edmund Jones was a Ludlow grocer, and also a keen local historian. He left money to the poor.
Our History
- The Palmers Guild of Ludlow
- John Hosyer, Draper
- Hosyer’s Almshouses under the Palmers Guild
- Hosyer’s Almshouses under Ludlow Borough Corporation
- Other charities benefiting the residents of Hosyer’s Almshouses between 1552 and 1835
- Charities benefiting the poor generally which were later associated with Hosyer’s Almshouses
- Charles Foxe Almshouses, 1593 – 1993
- The Age of Reform: Appointment of Ludlow Municipal Charity Trustees
- The Replacement of the Ludlow Municipal Charity Trustees by the King Edward VI Charity Trustees and by the Foxe’s Charity Trustees
- Charities bequeathed after 1837 and entrusted to the Ludlow Municipal Charity Trustees and their successors
- The Almshouses since 1876