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 children removed from Hatton Garden in October 1745. Great interest was excited in the undertaking, especially by Hogarth, who in May 1740 presented his fine portrait of Coram to the hospital. Hogarth also presented a picture of Moses with Pharaoh's daughter, and gave tickets in the lottery for the ‘March to Finchley,’ one of which won the prize. He also introduced a portrait of Coram into an engraved power of attorney for receiving subscriptions to the hospital. Handel gave performances at the hospital in 1749 and 1750. Coram continued to be interested in the hospital. In his later years he advocated a scheme for the education of Indian girls in America. After the loss of his wife he neglected his private affairs, and fell into difficulties. A subscription was raised for him. He told Brocklesby that as he had never wasted his money in self-indulgence, he was not ashamed to confess that he was poor (, Johnson, p. 573). On 20 March 1749 an annuity of 161l. was assigned to him, the Prince of Wales subscribing 21l. annually, and, it is added, paying as regularly as the merchants who were the principal contributors. The pension was transferred on Coram's death to Leveridge, a worn-out singer. Coram died 29 March 1751, aged 83, and was buried 3 April following in the chapel of the Foundling Hospital. An inscription is placed there, and a statue of him by W. Calder Marshall was erected in front of the building a hundred years afterwards. Brocklesby describes him as a rather hot-tempered, downright sailorlike man, of unmistakable honesty and sterling goodness of heart. His portraits by Hogarth and by R. Nebot have been engraved.

 CORBAUX, MARIE FRANÇOISE CATHERINE DOETTER (1812–1883), painter and biblical critic, usually called, was daughter of an Englishman who lived much abroad, and was well known as a statistician and mathematician. When she was very young her father was reduced from affluence to poverty, and she was obliged to turn her talents for painting to account. Having studied at the National Gallery and the British Institution, she received in 1827 the large silver medal of the Society of Arts for an original portrait in miniature, the silver Isis medal for a copy of figures in water-colours, and the silver palette for a copy of an engraving. In 1828 an original composition of figures in water-colours again obtained the silver Isis medal, and a portrait in miniature, exhibited in 1830, won the gold medal. In the latter year she was elected an honorary member of the Society of British Artists, and for a few years she exhibited small oil pictures at its gallery. Subsequently she joined the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, and became a regular contributor to its annual exhibitions. She designed the illustrations for Moore's ‘Pearls of the East,’ 1837, and for ‘Cousin Natalia's Tales,’ 1841. As a biblical critic she gained some reputation by her communications to periodicals and literary societies on subjects relating to scripture history. Among these were ‘Letters on the Physical Geography of the Exodus,’ published in the ‘Athenæum.’ Another series, giving the history of a remarkable nation, called ‘the Rephaim’ in the Bible, and showing their connection with the political and monumental history of Egypt and that of the Exodus, appeared in the ‘Journal of Sacred Literature.’ She likewise wrote an historical and chronological introduction to ‘The Exodus Papyri,’ by D. I. Heath, 1855. In 1871 she received a civil list pension of 50l. She died at Brighton, after many years of suffering, on 1 Feb. 1883.

 CORBEIL, CURBUIL or CORBEUIL, WILLIAM (d. 1136), archbishop of Canterbury, was doubtless born at the little town of Corbeil, on the Seine, halfway between Paris and Melun, unless indeed the unimportant village, Corbeil-le-Cerf, some distance south of Beauvais, has a better claim to this distinction. He studied at Laon under the famous Anselm of Laon, where he dwelt in the house of the bishop and acted as tutor to the sons of ‘Ranulf, chancellor of the king of the English’ (Liber de Miraculis S. Mariæ Laudunensis, ii. c. 6, in, vol. clvi.) A Ranulf was chancellor from 1107 to 1123; but a plausible attempt has been made to identify the father of William's pupils with Ranulf Flambard, the notorious bishop of Durham, and minister of William Rufus, one of whose clerks William undoubtedly was (English Historical Review, No. 5, pp. 103–12). In that capacity he was present in 1104 at the great ceremonies which attended the dedication of the new cathedral and the translation of the relics of St. Cuthberht to a wor- 