Surgeon who founded two hospitals. 1828 established a small dispensary in Greville Street which was the first to provide free treatment even to people not sent by the benefactors of the institution. This became the Royal Free Hospital.
He also founded the Cancer Free Hospital, in 1851, later to become the Royal Marsden.
Born Sheffield. Died at the Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond, Surrey.
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William Marsden
District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1893-1939. Officer in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Dean of the Medical and Dental Schools at Guy's Hospital in 1964. Born Scotland. Lost an eye in WW1.
Barrister-at-law, Stepney Borough Councillor, guardian of the poor, member of Metropolitan Asylums Board. On top of his legal qualifications he also studied medicine at St Bartholomew's. Died aged ...
Spent most of his life in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, where he was born (in the vicarage) and died (at home,The Chantry). First doctor to study smallpox vaccine. Trained with John Hunter at St Georg...
In 1871 the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) suffered an attack of typhoid fever (the illness of which his father had died 10 years earlier) while at his home, Sandringham in Norfolk. To everyon...
A boxing prize introduced by Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, to be awarded to British boxing champions. A boxer has successfully to defend his title twice before he can retain it. We have found...
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