the city of oxford charity
Oxford
In a letter written to Queen’s College in 1695 the hospital is described as
being “… for the sick and sore and none to bee refused as long as there was
roome to receive them… and that all the Inhabitants, Privileged or not,
strangers, men of all professions, Catholics, Protestants, dissenters, should
bee received, and none rejected that they were fit objects of such charity.” In
1959 the running of the almshouses and various subsidiary charities based in and
around Oxford became the overall responsibility of a new body, the Trustees of
the City of Oxford Charity.