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History
It was founded in 1812 by Peter Hervé, painter and benefactor, to provide financial assistance to older people in straitened circumstances
It received a Royal Charter in 1859
It continues to provide financial support for elderly people
It moved out of London to Gloucestershire around the late twentieth century
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What was reforming about it?
It was mainly aimed at poor older people of the upper and middle classes who had no other obvious form of support
Where in Bloomsbury
It was at 45 Great Russell Street in the 1820s (Subscription Charities and Public Societies in London, 1823) until at least the 1840s (William Butler, Chronological, Biographical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Exercises, on a New Plan: Designed for the Daily Use of Young Ladies, 1846)
It was at 56 Southampton Row in the 1850s (1851 Post Office directory; The Times, 10 November 1856)
It later moved (confusingly) to 65 Southampton Row, where it remained from at least the 1870s (Edward Walford, Old and New London, vol. 4, 1878) until the early twentieth century
Website of current institution
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Books about it
Edward Evelyn Barron, The National Benevolent Institution, 1812–1936: A Short Account of its Rise and Progress Extracted from the Minutes (1936)
Archives
Records of its investigation by the Charity Organisation Society in 1878 are held in London Metropolitan Archives, ref. A/FWA/C/D/91/001 (closed until 2019); details are available online via Access to Archives (opens in new window)
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