"Durham Subscription Fund"

[stanmapstone]

In the  Dublin Weekly Nation - Saturday 11 December 1875 under the heading "Durham Subscription Fund" there is a list of subscribers. I can find no other mention of this anywhere online. Has anyone heard of it?
Stan

[ScouseBoy]

Is it HE Durham Fund?

[JenB]

Is it HE Durham Fund?

Did you research this before replying?

The H.E. Durham Fund, Kings College Cambridge, was the result of a bequest from H.E. Durham who died in 1945. http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E004002b.htm

Stan's enquiry is about subscription fund dated 1875.

[JenB]

The H.E. Durham Fund, Kings College Cambridge,

http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/news/2014/durham-fund.html

Added, sorry Stan, I hope you understand I'm not trying to take this thread off topic 

[stanmapstone]

This is a snip. As I said I am surprised that I can't find any other reference. It could be the newspaper has got it wrong.
  Stan   

Dublin Weekly Nation - Saturday 11 December 1875

[mazi]

Other than to speculate that the Michael McCartan might have been the one who went on to be an Irish nationalist politician in parliament I can't think of much else, presumably the Rev Perrin is an Anglican minister.

Mke

[stanmapstone]

There is only one Rev. William Perrin in 1874 Crockford's  and that is William Wilcox Perrin, curate of St. Mary, Southampton, and later a Bishop of Willesdon, but no apparent connection to Durham.

Stan

[stanmapstone]

Of course "Durham" may not mean County Durham.

Stan

[..claire..]

Lord Durham established a fund for miners in 1831, although that was known by something else.

The reverend was also a Freemason, could it be something to do with that ?