Benjamin Collins Brodie to Faraday   6 April 1842

The Caledonian Asylum in Copenhagen Fields, Islington, was instituted in 1815, though not opened until 1819, with the aim of "supporting and educating Children of Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, Natives of Scotland, and of indigent Scottish Parents resident in London, not entitled to Parochial relief", Imperial Calendar, 1842, p.400. See "A Short History of The Schools", Royal Caledonian Schools, 1992, pp.3, 5 and also Weinreb and Hibbert (1983), 113. The Caledonian Asylum seems to have had the same structure as the London Orphan Asylum, but there is no evidence which suggests that Faraday was a subscriber. Brodie had been a subscriber from before 1826, Annual Report of the Caledonian Asylum for 1826.