The Royal Naval Charitable Society, for the Relief of Indigent Orphans, Widows and Children, of Sea Officers, and also of Sea Officers Reduced by Misfortune to Indolence : instituted in 1791.

  • Royal Naval Charitable Society, for the Relief of Indigent Orphans, Widows and Children, of Sea Officers, and also of Sea Officers Reduced by Misfortune to Indolence.
Date:
1833
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Credit: The Royal Naval Charitable Society, for the Relief of Indigent Orphans, Widows and Children, of Sea Officers, and also of Sea Officers Reduced by Misfortune to Indolence : instituted in 1791. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Society that the amount of Donations and Subscrip¬ tions (in column 3) had been so gradually decreasing since that period as to show a deficit of ;£1000 in the receipts of the last year as compared with the amount realized in 1825, (and several years prior thereto,) the Committee regretted that such falling off in its receipts compelled the Society to reduce the scale of its dona¬ tions, and to withhold relief in many compassionate cases. With an anxious desire, therefore, to aid its diminished funds : IT WAS UNANIMOUSLY RESOLVED, On the motion of Captain, the Right Honourable Lord Radstock, that the following Appeal on the behalf of the Society should be inserted in the Ports¬ mouth and Plymouth Papers, and printed copies thereof transmitted to every Naval Officer in London. The Committee have to lament the decease of many Flag Officers and distinguished persons by whose liberal contributions the Charity has been mainly supported, and in consequence of whose loss the receipts of the Institution have been greatly