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THE ACTS OF PARLIAMENT CONSTITUTING THE BELFAST CHARITABLE SOCIETY : 13 & 14 GEORGE III. TOGETHER WITH A CHRONOLOGICAL STATEMENT, DRAWN UP BY ORDER OF THE BOARD IN 1879. TO WHICH IS ADDED FURTHER INFORMATION RELATIVE TO THE ORIGIN OF THE SOCIETY. Title: THE ACTS OF PARLIAMENT CONSTITUTING THE BELFAST CHARITABLE SOCIETY : 13 & 14 GEORGE III. TO WHICH IS ADDED FURTHER INFORMATION RELATIVE TO THE ORIGIN OF THE SOCIETY Publication: Belfast, Ireland: W.

Baird, Limited, 1899 Edition: First Edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Arthur Crichester, an engraving of the Poor House, and a fold-out map 18 in. Of the Poor House farm. Forest green cloth boards with gilt title to front. Three inch closed tear to map.

N 1752 a group of Belfast's leading merchants agreed that "a poor-house and hospital are greatly wanted in Belfast for the support of vast numbers of real objects of charity in this parish, for the employment of idle beggars who crowd to it from all parts of the North, and for the reception of infirm and diseased poor". Erected on land donated by Arthur Chichester, the first Marquess of Donegall on the northern edge of the town, it combined 36 person poorhouse and 24 bed infirmary... The exponential growth in Victorian Belfast led to the foundation of other philanthropic bodies who also sought to address disadvantage and by 1882 the last child had left the Poor House. From the 19th through the 20th centuries, the Clifton House was a residential and nursing home.

It still serves as a center for reaching out to those in need today. (Wikipedia) his book presents a hostory of the Belfast Charitable Society and the Acts of Parliament that mark changes in its mission of The Clifton House at the beginning of the 20th Century.

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