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Royal Free Hospital

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Founded by William Marsden as the London General Institution for the Gratuitous Cure of Malignant Diseases on 17th April 1828 in a rented 4-storey house at 16 Greville Street, Hatton Garden. September 1833 the name changed to London Free Hospital (good move).  1835 it became the Free Hospital.  1837 Queen Victoria became its patron and it became the Royal Free Hospital.

1844 the hospital moved to the former barracks of the Light Horse Volunteers in Grays Inn Road.  These buildings were gradually expanded and rebuilt.  1929 the Eastman Dental Clinic opened next door. 1948 the Hospital became part of the NHS and joined a group of other hospitals one of which was the Hampstead General Hospital. 1974 the Hospital moved to a new building in Pond Street Hampstead and the Grays Inn Road site was closed.  The Pond Street building was officially opened by the Queen in 1978, on the Hospital’s 150th anniversary.  The Grays Inn Road buildings were taken over by the Eastman Dental Hospital in 1988.

All this information comes from the splendid Lost Hospitals.

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Royal Free Hospital

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PP - 3H - Rabbeth

Samuel Rabbeth, medical officer of the Royal Free Hospital, who tried to save...

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Royal Free Hospital - 150 anniversary tree

This Mulberry was donated by the League of the Royal Free Hospital Nurses to ...

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Royal Free Hospital and Medical School Opening

The plaque is by the entrance to the Medical School.

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Royal Free Hospital - development

The spelling of "honor" is not a mistake on our part.

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Royal Free Hospital - Sussex wing

The Duke of Sussex had died just 3 years before this plaque was erected. We ...

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Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association

Originally established by John Wilder to support psychiatric patients on discharge from hospital at a time when the Mental Health Act meant that psychiatric hospitals were being closed and replaced...

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1 memorial
Dr Owen Lankester

Dr Owen Lankester

Chairman of the East End Maternity Hospital, 1902 - 1933.  His obituary in Medical News 6 January 1934 tells us:  Born Alfred Owen Lankester, brother to (the later) Sir Ray Lankester.  Died at home...

Person, Medicine, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Lord Brock

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...

Person, Benefactor, Medicine, USA

1 memorial
Marie Stopes

Marie Stopes

Born in Edinburgh. Scientist, writer, dramatist and poet. Publicist of the campaign for sexual education. Advocate of family planning and founder of pioneer birth control clinic. Courageous crusade...

Person, Gender Issues, Medicine, Science, Scotland

5 memorials
Francis T. Gregg

Francis T. Gregg

M.A. Secretary of Institute of The Ophthalmic Opticians, Refraction Hospital in 1929.

Person, Medicine

1 memorial