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Royal College of Surgeons

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Henry VIII brought two organisations together in 1540 to form the Company of Barber-Surgeons. The surgeons broke away in 1745, bought the property in Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1797 and became the Royal College of Surgeons in 1800.
Their Lincoln's Inn building, on the south side, contains the seriously creepy Hunterian Museum.

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Royal College of Surgeons

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Bicentenary of the Royal College of Surgeons

This Oak tree (Quercus robur) was planted by Barry Jackson, President, The Ro...

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John Hunter, Lincoln's Inn Fields

{The front of the stone plinth is inscribed:} Hunter {On a plaque attached ...

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Betty Westgate

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Sydney Monckton Copeman

Sydney Monckton Copeman

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John Rae

John Rae

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Dame Maud McCarthy

Dame Maud McCarthy

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A. Symons Eccles, MB

A. Symons Eccles, MB

Medical Board in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1889-1900. Honorary Associate in the Order of St John. The Brigade's first Honorary Surgeon.

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