Nurse of King Henry VI circa 1420-30. When she retired she rented a house in Giltspur Street from St Bartholomew's Hospital.
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Dame Joanna Astley
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St Bartholomew's Hospital - Astley
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Dr William Henry Walter
Medical doctor and member of Brentford Council in 1909.
1 memorial
Dr Robert Knight
Like Keats Knight trained in medicine at Guy's Hospital. Knight failed to write any acclaimed odes but, unlike Keats, went on to work at Guy's throughout his career as a consultant physician with a...
1 memorial
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric Hospital
The hospital's founder was Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. This hospital provides women-centred services including the right of a woman to be treated by a female doctor.
2 memorials
Lord Brock
Surgeon. Born Russell Claude Brock at 840 Old Kent Road, London. While working in America he developed an interest in thoracic surgery. He pioneered several new techniques, including open-heart sur...
1 memorial
Clinical Neurophysiology Dept, National Hospital, staff
Friends and colleagues of Staff Nurse Sue Garner.
1 memorial
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Sir David Floyd Ewin
Consultant and Trustee of St Pauls in 1979. Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly researched this man: His full name was Sir David Ernest Thomas Floyd Ewin and he was the youngest of ten children ...
1 memorial
Daniel Defoe
Novelist. Born in the parish of Cripplegate, as Daniel Foe, adding the "de" latter, for effect. Published "Robinson Crusoe" in 1719, considered by some to be the first novel in English. His grave ...
2 memorials
first public building in the world to be lit throughout by electricity
See Savoy Theatre.
1 memorial
Private Albert Edward Springham
Albert Edward Springham was born in 1896 in Rotherhithe, London, the fourth of the seven children of Henry Albert Springham (1864-1916) and Arletta Springham née Wright (1865-1936). His birth was r...
War dead, WW1
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