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Radio Shropshire,19 mins

Thomas Day and Sabrina Sidney

Jim Hawkins

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In 1769 Shrewsbury School was a Foundling Hospital, and it was from there that Thomas Day, a member of the Lunar Society, chose a twelve year old whom he named Sabrina Sidney, in order to train her to be his wife. Dr Kate Iles tells Jim the extraordinary details – and the story’s outcome.

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