Benevolent Society of New South Wales

Nonprofit or charity

An early charitable society, founded in 1818, that became one of Sydney's largest health and welfare providers.

Names
Alternate
New South Wales Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Benevolence
1813
-
1818
Milestones
Formed
1813
Occupations
Founded by
Hall, Edward Smith
1813
Positions
Committee member
Douglass, Henry Grattan
Committee member
Sheridan, John Felix
Committee member
Stephen, Matthew Henry
Member
Sutherland, John
Member
Hutchinson, William
Member
Bland, William
1821
-
1868
Committee member
Broughton, Thomas Stafford
1843
-
1846
Director
Raphael, Joseph George
1860
Medical practitioner
Renwick, Arthur
1862
-
1908
Director
Taylor, Allen Arthur
1909
-
1913
Property
Occupied
Juniper Hall
1852
-
1859
Occupied
Liverpool Hospital
1852
-
1918
Occupied
Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children
1859
-
1915
Occupied
Flinton
1901
-
1920
Occupied
Scarba
1917

Benevolent Society and Asylum

by Terri McCormack, 2008

 

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The Benevolent Society, and the asylum (and later hospitals, clinics and aged care centres) it ran, provided care and sustenance to Sydney's poorest from the 1820s. Although it was founded under the auspices of the Colonial Auxiliary Bible Society, it gradually became a secular, independent non-profit organisation.
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