Westminster City Council
Sir Morell MacKenzie, 1837 - 1892, founded the world's first hospital for diseases of the throat in a building on this site in 1865.
Royal Society of Medicine
Placed 17 May 1995.
W1, Golden Square, 33
Building used to be the Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital.
Credit for this entry to: Bob Baker
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Morell MacKenzie
From Lost Hospitals of London: "In 1862 Dr. Morell Mackenzie ... , one of the...
Surgeon. Founded the world's first hospital for diseases of the throat. Our ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Morell MacKenzie
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Johann Strauss 1st, 1804 to 1849, father of the Waltz dynasty and composer of the 'Radetzky March' lodged here (formerly Hotel du Commerc...
The lettering on this inscribed stone is delightful: in "THE" the "H" is just a horizontal line joining the "T" to the "E", the two "N"s ...
This is the most technical plaque we've ever transcribed - and we are none the wiser.
Round Table The neighbourhood of St. Martins Lane was, in the middle of the Eighteenth century, the resort of 'horsy and fighting men'. ...
London County Council Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772 - 1834, poet and philosopher, lived in a house on this site, 1812 - 1813.