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Carnegie Hero Fund Trust
The Carnegie Hero Fund Trust was established in 1908 as a British extension to the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission which had been founded in 1904 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.〔Much of this entry is derived from information contained in chapter 4 of John Price, ''Everyday Heroism: Victorian Constructions of the Heroic Civilian'' (Bloomsbury: London, 2014) ISBN 978-1-4411066-5-0, which is entitled "Heroes for Hire: The Carnegie Hero Fund Trust".〕 The Trust was founded upon a financial endowment from the Scottish Philanthropist and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. The purpose of the Trust is to provide payments to individuals who have been injured or financially disadvantaged as a result of undertaking an act of heroism or in fatal cases to provide for the family or other dependants. This has continued to be the aim of the Trust which each year considers around twelve cases of heroism within a geographical area encompassing Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the surrounding territorial waters.〔(The Carnegie Hero Fund Trust )〕
==History==
The founding of the Carnegie Hero Fund Trust was announced in September 1908 with a bold statement from its benefactor, Andrew Carnegie, “Gentlemen…we live in a heroic age. Not seldom are we thrilled by acts of heroism where men or women are injured or lose their lives in attempting to preserve or rescue their fellows; such are the heroes of civilisation”.〔Carnegie Hero Fund Trust , ''Report September 1908 to December 1908'', pp. 12-17.〕 Carnegie provided $1.25 million in bonds, yielding an annual income of £12,500, as a means to supporting the Trust’s work.〔John Price, ''Everyday Heroism: Victorian Constructions of the Heroic Civilian'' (Bloomsbury: London, 2014), p.126〕 Such an amount, Carnegie believed, would be sufficient to “meet the cost of maintaining injured heroes and their families during the disability of the heroes () the widows and children of heroes who may lose their lives”.〔Carnegie Hero Fund Trust , ''Report September 1908 to December 1908'', pp. 12-17.〕 Essentially, the purpose of the Trust was to provide pensions or one-off payments to individuals who had been injured or financially disadvantaged as a result of undertaking an act of heroism or in the case of those who lost their lives through such an act, to provide for the family or other dependants.
In terms of inspiration for establishing the projects, the noted palaeontologist and first president of the Commission, William J. Holland, recalled a conversion with Carnegie a couple of years prior to the founding of the Commission when, following reports of a dramatic rescue from a burning building, Carnegie commented, ‘I intend some day to do something for such heroes. Heroes in civic life should be recognized’.〔D. R. Chambers, ''A Century of Heroes'', (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004) ISBN 978-0-8229586-6-6, p.29〕 However, there is evidence that Carnegie was interested and active in recognising civilian heroism long before that.
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