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History
It was founded in 1867 to provide aid to Hungarian and Austrian exiles in the UK
Along with the Austro-Hungarian Aid Society, it was incorporated into the newly founded Francis Joseph Institute in Fitzroy Square in the late nineteenth century
It is still a registered charity aiming to help, in particular, poor people in London of Austrian or Hungarian birth
It is now a subsidiary of the Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress, a charity with a wider remit to provide grants to residents of London from non-Commonwealth/British Empire countries (though originally founded as a German charity)
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What was reforming about it?
It was an important source of support for Austro-Hungarian refugees in London
Where in Bloomsbury
It was at 66a Great Russell Street in 1881 (The Times, 30 April 1881)
Website of current institution
The parent organisation, the Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress, does not have a website
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Books about it
Its annual reports were published, at least once it had become the Francis Joseph Institute; some are in the British Library
Archives
None found
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