Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
British and Foreign School Society
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Description area
Dates of existence
Founded 1808
History
Founded in 1808 as the Society for promoting the Royal British or Lancasterian System for the Education of the Poor. In 1814 the Society changed its name to the British and Foreign School Society.