ITHACA, N.Y., Sept. 11. -- A foundling won first prize in the Baby Show of the Tompkins County Fair, which closed here yesterday. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

The author of children’s series that included characters such as Olga da Polga and Monsieur Pamplemousse, he was most widely known for over two dozen books about the foundling Paddington ...

This charter established his campaign to set up The Foundling Hospital, London's first home for abandoned children. Up to a thousand babies a year were abandoned in early 18th-century London.