Prisca Coborn
Prisca Coborn (or Coburne or Colbourne, 1622 – 13 November 1701) was a wealthy London widow. She gave money to the poor and established a school for girls.
Prisca Forster was the daughter of a minister of Bow Church, where she was baptised on 30 August 1622.[1][2] In 1675, she became the second wife of Thomas Coborn/Colbourne, a brewer in Bow, whose wife had died in January after giving birth to their daughter Alice. Thomas rewrote his will to include Prisca and Alice, and died a couple of months after the wedding.[3] Alice Coborn died at the age of fifteen and was buried on what was to have been her wedding day.
On her death in 1701, through the terms of her will, dated 6 May 1701, Prisca Coborn established the Coborn School for Girls in Bow.[3][4] She also gave money to help the poor of Bow and Stepney in the East End of London,[1] and bequeathed funds for an ornamental plaster ceiling in Bow Church.[5] A ward in St Bartholomew's Hospital was named Coborn in recognition of her gifts.[6]
Locally, she is remembered by the street names Coborn Road and Coborn Street, and the Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health.[7] (The Coborn Arms public house is named after Charles Coborn, an East End music hall singer.)
She is buried at Bow Church, where a memorial to her (as Prisca Coburne) opposite that of her stepdaughter records her charitable bequests.[2]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 East End Talking
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Osborn C. Hills, Saint Mary Stratford, Bow, Monographs of the Committee for the Survey of the Memorials of Greater London 2, London: E. Arnold, 1900, OCLC 4042162, p. 35.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jane Cox, Old East Enders: A History of the Tower Hamlets, Stroud: The History Press, 2013, ISBN 9780750956291 Search this book on
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- ↑ A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 1, p. 290
- ↑ Hills, Saint Mary Stratford, Bow, p. 12.
- ↑ Norman Moore, The History of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London: Arthur Pearson, 1918, OCLC 2624369, Volume 2, p. 854.
- ↑ The Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health Archived 12 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine
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