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42 THE DEAKIN INSTITUTION.
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Amid The Din Of Warthe Strife Of Parties...
broad field of battle / 7 yet lacking most of the assistance that men meet with . ; wanting the goal for which men laborand kept back by
, a delicacy of physical and nervous development of which men know nothing . That woman needs this aid is so well-known a fact that
it would be idle to attempt to substantiate it . It is scarcely too much to say , that every person has within his or her own knowledge
some one or more instances of an educated woman working hard mentally and physically for a remuneration which will not allow of
her laying by any provision whatever for illness or old age . But while in fact a transformation of this phase of society is going on
( as it most certainly will ) very slowly and gradually , the question arisesWhat can be done to ameliorate the present condition of
educated , females ; aged , unmarried , and without resources as thousands of them are ? Let us see what is being done for this class , of
whom numbers will yet remain , even if the succeeding generation adopt a wiser course than the present , and ameliorate to the utmost
of their power the social condition of industrial women . First , we have the Governesses Benevolent Institution , an
admirable one , but -with the means of granting annuities to about two per cent , only of the candidates for such advantage . And we have
likewise , not so generally known , yet , in one especial respect , more likely to make its aid acceptable to recipientsthe Institution founded
, hy the late Mr . Thomas Deakin , of Sheffield ; a prosperous merchant , who towards the close of a long and active life , impressed deeply
with the claims of the class of unmarried gentlewomen , bequeathed for their benefit the sum of £ 3000 providing that alike sum should be
added by donation within two , ye , ars after his decease . It is scarcely necessary to add that this call was responded to , and the required
sum raised by subscription within the time named , and three provisional trustees being appointedthey received from the executors
the sum bequeathed by Mr . Deakin , , minus the legacy duty of £ 300 , which sum , with that raised by subscription , they at-once invested
in the purchase of £ 5 , 764 17 s . three and a quarter per cent , stock . Since that timefarther subscriptions have been received from
per-, sons qualifying themselves for governors , as well as smaller sums , and the amount held at the time of the report of January , 1859 , by
the trustees in three per cent , annuities and on freehold securities , amounted to £ 8700 . A petition having been presented by the
trustees to the Court , of Chancery , praying that it might be referred to the Master of the Court to settle a fit and proper scheme for the
establishment , government , and regulation of the charity , and for the application and administration of the trust funds , a number of
rules , of which the following are a portion , were by the , Right Honorable the Master of the Rolls ordered to be those of the
Institution . 1 . That the name of the Institution shall be " The Deakin
Insti-, tution , " for granting annuities to unmarried women .
2 . That the funds of the Institution shall be invested in govern-
42 The Deakin Institution.
42 THE DEAKIN INSTITUTION .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 42, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/42/
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