Event    From /10/2000  To /10/2000

Bicentenary of the Royal College of Surgeons

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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

Sir Stewart Duke-Elder

Ophthalmologist. Born in Pitlochry, Scotland. Wrote a classic manual for eye surgeons, entitled "Textbook of Ophthalmology".

Person, Medicine, Scotland

1 memorial
Sir Ronald Ross

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...

Person, Medicine, India

2 memorials
Sir Alexander Fleming

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...

Person, Medicine, Science, Seriously Famous, Scotland

6 memorials
Dr William Henry Walter

Dr William Henry Walter

Medical doctor and member of Brentford Council in 1909.

Person, Medicine, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Sir John Pringle

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

1 memorial

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Zeppelin

Zeppelin

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.

2 subjects commemorated
DC Jim Morrison

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'...

Person, Emergency Services, Tragedy, Scotland

1 memorial