Jacques de Gastigny
Jacques de Gastigny (died 1708), also known as James Gastigny, was a French Huguenot emigrant to England who served as Master of the Buckhounds to King William III. Through his will he founded the French Hospital in Finsbury, London.
Gastigny was a Huguenot refugee who fled to Holland, where he fought alongside William, then Prince of Orange. He followed him to England.[1][2]
Gastigny originally left £1,000 in his will, but it was added to by the community, and the hospital opened in 1718 with Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway, as its first governor.[3]
References
- ^ Baring-Gould, Sabine (2013). Family Names and Their Story. Lippincott. p. 285. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
- ^ Dunan-Page, Dr Anne (2013). The Religious Culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1750. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. pp. 80–81. ISBN 9781409479864. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
- ^ Agnew, David C. A. (1864). Henri de Ruvigny, Earl of Galway: A Filial Memoir ; with a Prefatory Life of His Father, Le Marquis de Ruvigny. William Paterson. p. 200. Retrieved 10 December 2016.