Peabody Donation Fund Act 1948
WHEREAS the late George Peabody on the twelfth day of March eighteen hundred and sixty-two addressed to His Excellency Charles Francis Adams the then United States Minister in London the Right Honourable Edward Henry afterwards Earl of Derby but then Lord Stanley Sir James Emerson Tennent K.C.S. and LL.D. Curtis Miranda Lampson esquire afterwards Sir Curtis Miranda Lampson baronet and Junius Spencer Morgan esquire a letter which stated his intention to make a gift for the benefit of the poor ...