Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1836 - 1919, was born in a house formerly on this site. The first woman to be registered as a medical practitioner and surgeon. Founder of the first hospital for and staffed by women.
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
E1, Commercial Road, Metropolitan University, 41-47
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - birth
Born in Whitechapel. She was the first female doctor to be trained in Britain...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - birth
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
Professor Slobodan Yovanovitch, 1869-1958, Serbian historian, literary critic, legal scholar, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, lived here, 1...
Colonel R. E. B. Crompton, 1845 - 1940, electrical engineer, lived and worked here, 1891 - 1939. English Heritage
The photo (© TfL from the London Transport Museum collection) of the plaque is from the 'News of T.O.T.' article which is held by the Lon...
Sir Kenneth Clark, 1903 - 1983, Art historian and broadcaster, lived here 1934 - 1939. English Heritage
Richard Tauber, 1891 - 1948, lyric tenor, lived here in flat 297, 1947 - 1948. English Heritage
