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...
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - birth
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
English Heritage David Edward Hughes, 1831 - 1900, scientist and inventor of the microphone, lived and worked here.
The quotation is from the Song of Solomon, either chapter 2:17 or 4:6.
Amy lived here for 26 years. Unveiled by Jamaica's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Burchell Whiteman.
The address was 7 Assembly Row when Cook and his family moved in, 1764.
The ashes of James Callaghan (and possibly Audrey's too) were scattered in the flower bed at the base of this statue. See the Callaghan'...
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
The war memorial on Holy Trinity Church, Hoxton, shows his name incorrectly spelt as Fredk Heinemann. Frederick William Heineman was the son of Louis Heineman. On 22 October 1911 he married Eliz...
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
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