biography
pronunciation:
[giy]
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| lived:
| (c.1644–1724)
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| biography:
| Philanthropist, born in London, UK. He began business in 1668 as a bookseller, and then became a printer of Bibles, amassing a fortune of nearly half a million pounds. In 1707 he built and furnished three wards of St Thomas' Hospital, and in 1721 founded the hospital in Southwark, London, which bears his name. |
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