Grey Coat Hospital

Grey Coat Hospital, so was called from the colour of children's clothes, was founded in 1698 for the maintenance and education of seventy poor boys and forty poor girls of the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster. As presently established, it is confined to the education and maintenance of one hundred children, whose parents must have had a legal settlement in either of the parishes for a period of seven years immediately preceding the admission of such child. No child is admitted under seven or above the age of ten. An annual subscriber of 7 shillings, or 30 shillings composition, is a governor of the Hospital, and entitled in rotation to present a child for admission as vacancies arise.