A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



gent widows. The legacy was invested in 20 lot. 6J. 

 consols with the official trustees. 



The Thorngate Almshouses at Brockhurst : 

 Thorngate Charity No. I 



By deed dated 6 March, 1866, John Batty Thorn- 

 gate and William Thorngate conveyed to trustees a 

 piece of land at Brockhurst, upon which ten alms- 

 houses had been erected for the occupation of ten 

 females (spinsters or widows), and endowed the same. 

 The present endowment consists of 2,409 i8/. 8i/. 

 consols. In 1905, 52 was expended out of the 

 dividends of the stock in weekly payments to the 

 inmates. (See also Thorngate Charities, Nos. 3 and 5.) 



Thorngate Charity No. 2 



by deed dated n March, 1867, the said William 

 Thorngate conveyed to trustees a piece of land at 

 Camden Town, Forton, upon which fifteen alms- 

 houses had been erected, and endowed the same with 

 7,500 consols. In 1905 the sum of 155 us. out 

 of the dividends of this sum of stock was expended 

 in weekly payments to the inmates. (See also 

 Thorngate Chanties, Nos. 3 and 5.) 



Thorngate Charity No. 3 



By another deed, also dated 1 1 March, 1867, 

 William Thorngate settled a sum of 42,000 consols 

 upon trust to provide certain fixed payments to cer- 

 tain institutions and schools and poor persons within 

 the parish of Alverstoke, and certain institutions not 

 within the parish. The stock, which is held by the 

 official trustees, has, as regards the educational chari- 

 ties, been apportioned by an order dated I o April, 

 1906, made by the Charity Commissioners under the 

 Board of Education Act, 1899. 



For Cook's Ragged School and Home in South 

 Street, established in 1853 (now known as ' The 

 Henry Cook Institute and Boys' Home '), a sum of 

 1,200 consols has been set aside to produce 30 a 

 year. To produce 10 a year for each of the 

 following institutions, viz. : The Sunday School at 

 Alverstoke ; the Sunday School at Elson ; the Ragged 

 School, Haslar Street, Gosport ; Holy Trinity Sun- 

 day School ; St. Matthew's Sunday School ; and 

 Forton St. John Sunday School, six sums of 400 

 consols have been set aside as educational foundations 

 in connexion with each of these objects. 



In 1905 the sum of 78 was paid to the inmates 

 of the ten almshouses at Brockhurst (Charity No. l) ; 

 and 64 1 5/, to the fifteen almshouses at Gosport 

 (Charity No. 2). 



Thorngate Charity No. 4 



By deed dated 24 August, 1867, William Thorn- 

 gate and Emmanuel Churcher conveyed to trustees 

 land at Camden Town, Forton, for the erection of 

 forty or more three-roomed almshouses for married 

 couples or females above fifty years of age, for the 

 endowment of which certain securities were assigned 

 by deed 4 February, 1868. (Thorngate Charity, 

 No. 5). 



In 1905 the endowment fund consisted of 

 71,940 I3/. 7</. consols (with the official trustees), 

 the income of which is applicable by the trustees in 

 annual specified subscriptions to numerous existing 

 educational and charitable societies and institutions, 

 with power for the trustees to retain 120 per annum 

 for their expenses in executing the trusts. In 1905 

 the payments for local objects included Gosport and 

 Alverstoke Victoria Nursing Institution, 10 ; to 

 inmates of two almshouses (Jane Holmes), Alverstoke, 



36 8.f. ; to inmates of ten almshouses at Brock- 

 hurst, 52 (Charity No. i) ; to inmates of aims- 

 houses at Gosport, 51 i6/. (Charity No. 4); to 

 inmates of fifteen almshouses,CamdenTown,i 16 14*. 

 (Charity No. 2) ; sixty poor people also received 

 10 each, twenty-one received 15 each, and ten 

 received 5 each ; 20 were paid to four poor old 

 watermen, and 20 to four poor old fishermen. 



Thorngate Charity, No. 6 



By deed dated 22 January, 1868, William Thorn- 

 gate conveyed to trustees certain messuages, tenements, 

 and lands, and assigned certain bonds and securities 

 upon the charitable trusts therein mentioned, namely, 

 for the benefit of poor persons resident in the town 

 of Gosport and elsewhere in Great Britain and 

 Ireland. Under the authority of an order of the 

 Charity Commissioners, dated 4 July, 1890, several 

 pieces of land (part of the trust property), containing 

 together 96 acres 2 roods 20 poles, situated at Hoe 

 Gate, in the parish of Soberton, were sold, and the 

 net proceeds, amounting to 1,908 if. zd., were in- 

 vested in New South Wales 4 per cent, stock. The 

 endowment (1905) consists of four freehold tenements 

 in Gosport, producing about 50 a year ; a rent- 

 charge of 20 on land known as the Gurnard Estate, 

 in the Isle of Wight (about to be redeemed) ; 

 3,072 4/. id. Queensland 4 per cent, stock ; 

 4,692 I is. "jd. New South Wales 4 per cent, stock ; 

 5,561 3/. 4^. New Zealand 4 per cent, stock ; 

 and 644 Ji. 6d. Canada 3^ per cent, stock, pro- 

 ducing 550 a year. In 1905, 300 was expended 

 in donations of 20 each, and 200 was distributed 

 in fuel, meat, and other necessaries to 500 people ; 

 and 100 was, as directed by the deed, retained 

 by the trustees. 



The several sums of stock belonging to the above- 

 mentioned Thorngate Charities are held by the 

 official trustees. 



Thorngate Charity No. 7 was founded by deed 

 dated 4 January, 1868, whereby certain freehold and 

 leasehold property in Ireland (including a fee-farm 

 rent of 89 101. <)J. issuing out of the lands of 

 Bredagh, in the barony of Kilconnell, in the county 

 of Galway), were settled upon trust to apply the rents 

 in sums of 20 to decayed and unfortunate trades- 

 people or other persons of Gosport and elsewhere. 

 By an order of the Charity Commissioners dated 

 *6 June, 1906, the trustees were authorized to sell 

 the said fee-farm rent for 2,300, the price fixed in 

 accordance with the provisions of the Irish Land Act, 

 1903. The particulars of the trust estate have not 

 yet been supplied to the Charity Commissioners. 



In 1885 a memorial hall was erected in the High 

 Street, Gosport, at a cost of about 9,000, as a 

 memorial to the late William Thorngate, esquire, mer- 

 chant of this town, who died in the year 1868, the 

 founder of the several Thorngate Charities. 



The Gosport Royal Marine School dates from 

 1850. An elementary school was opened at Forton 

 in 1830, and another at Gosport in connexion with 

 Holy Trinity Church in 1831. In 1842 a school 

 was founded at Alverstoke, and about two years later 

 St. Matthew's School, Gosport, and Elson School, 

 were opened. In 1853 an elementary school was 

 founded at Newton, and another in connexion with the 

 Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary was established 

 in 1811. Leesland School was opened in 1850." 

 110 See f.C.H. Hants, II, 395. 



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