Thomas Coram (c. 1668  29 March 1751) was a philanthropist and the son of a master mariner from England who created the  London Foundling Hospital, which is the world's first incorporated charity.
Captain Thomas Coram (c. 1668  29 March 1751) was a philanthropist who created the London Foundling Hospital in Lamb's Conduit Fields, Bloomsbury, to look after abandoned children. 
