Transcribed from the S. Mary Abbots Parish Magazine (reprint) by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to the Royal Borough of Chelsea and Kensington Libraries for allowing their copy to be used for this transcription. The Endowed Charities of Kensington; BY WHOM BEQUEATHED, AND HOW ADMINISTERED. * * * * * BY EDWARD MORTON DANIEL, Esq. * * * * * * * * * * _Reprinted from the_ “S. MARY ABBOTS PARISH MAGAZINE.” * * * * * * * * * * _Printed for Private Circulation_ The Endowed Charities of Kensington; by whom Bequeathed, and how Administered. BY EDWARD MORTON DANIEL, ESQ. _A Paper read at a Meeting of the Kensington Ratepayers Association_, _held at S. Mark’s Parish Rooms_, _Notting Hill_, _on Tuesday_, 21_st_ _April_, 1891. [Reprinted from the “S. MARY ABBOTS PARISH MAGAZINE.”] AS everyone has need of charity, everyone exercises charity, and most of us receive charity, the subject is of personal application and importance to us all. This is the case when charity is abstractly regarded; but when we approach the consideration of the charities of our own parish, those which we are bound to support and upon which we have individually a claim, our subject must excite the keenest interest. Too much cannot be known about them in order that their benefits may be distributed amongst the fittest subjects and most deserving persons that can be found; and in order that those of us who are blessed with means may learn how carefully and fruitfully any benefaction we may make in the future will be utilised and bestowed, if placed in the hands of those administering the charities already established in our parish. Perhaps the point which will strike you most, when you have learned what I have to tell you this evening of the charities of Kensington, is the circumstance that, from small sums of money left for purposes of charity, great and ever growing results may spring, fulfilling purposes of good far beyond the most sanguine anticipations in which the original donors could have ever indulged.