Captain Thomas (1668-1751), an eminent philanthropist who projected the Foundling Hospital, Guildford Street, London, and set on foot a scheme for the education of Indian females in America. He spent all his property in promoting charitable undertakings, and was at length reduced to subsist on a subscription raised on his behalf, and headed by the Prince of Wales. He was buried in a vault under the chapel of the Foundling Hospital. A fine portrait of him, by Hogarth, has been engraved among the other works of that artist.