This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Bicentenary of the 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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Sir Stewart Duke-Elder
Ophthalmologist. Born in Pitlochry, Scotland. Wrote a classic manual for eye surgeons, entitled "Textbook of Ophthalmology".
Sir Ronald Ross
Born Almora, India. Died London, Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1902 "for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundatio...
Sir Alexander Fleming
Born Lochfield, Scotland. Pharmacologist and bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1927. However he did not realise the significance and it was not until 1940 that Florey and Chain demonstrat...
Dr William Henry Walter
Medical doctor and member of Brentford Council in 1909.
Sir John Pringle
Military physician. Born Roxburghshire, Scotland. Studied in Flanders/Netherlands, where he later returned in his role as military physician, and Paris. Instituted sanitary reforms first on battlef...
Person, Armed Forces, Medicine, France, Netherlands, Scotland
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WC1, Queen Square
We are familiar with the "pensioner crosses road" syndrome in local newspapers but this is our first sighting of it in a plaque.
DC Jim Morrison
Detective Constable with the Metropolitan Police. Fatally stabbed when, although off duty, he attempted to arrest a bag thief and died, aged 26, on 13 December 1991. Posthumously awarded the Queen'...
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