Plaque

Thomas Hodgkin

Inscription

Greater London Council
Thomas Hodgkin, 1798 - 1866, physician, reformer and philanthropist lived here.

Site: 35 Bedford Square (2 memorials)

WC1, Bedford Square, 35, Architectural Association

Credit for this entry to: Bob Baker

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thomas Hodgkin

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Thomas Hodgkin

Physician, pathologist, reformer and philanthropist., of Hodgkin's disease fa...

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Greater London Council

Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...

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Thomas Wakley

Thomas Wakley

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