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The charity owned the Smith's Charity estate in Kensington which was established on farmland in Kensington and Chelsea in 1685. [3] The Henry Smith Charity sold their South Kensington estate to the Wellcome Trust for £280 million in 1995. [4] Today, the charity makes a variety of grants, primarily to social welfare and disadvantaged groups.
Henry Smith settled in London where he joined the Worshipful Company of Salters. [1] By the late 1590s Smith had become a moneylender, and by 1597 was living in St Dunstan-in-the-East. Smith is known to have lent significant sums to Thomas Waller, a member of parliament in Kent, and to Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex. Through the business he ...
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The Stimson Center conducts research, engagement, and solutions building across five thematic areas: Trade and Technology, Security and Strategy, Human Security and Governance, Climate and Natural Resources, and Pivotal Places, a geographic topic that largely covers work on Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
The settlement movement was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in the United Kingdom and the United States. Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and social connection.
After it submitted the report to Congress in 1992, legislation creating the HOPE VI grants was drafted and passed. [6] One of the first HOPE VI pilot grants, which in the first year of the program were $50m before being reduced in future years, was given to the Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) in 1993. Other housing authorities that received ...
Law enforcement and court documents, however, don't support much of what Henry states he found. Smith has been taken into custody twice on domestic calls relating to an ex-wife. He was arrested ...
Thomas Wolsey: Lord Chancellor in 1525 and right-hand man to the King. The Amicable Grant was a tax imposed on England in 1525 by the Lord Chancellor Thomas Wolsey.Called at the time "a benevolence", it was essentially a forced loan, a levy of between one-sixth and one-tenth on the goods of the laity and on one-third of the goods of the clergy. [1]