Born Dublin shortly before her parents moved to London. 1929 the family moved to Kent. With difficulty (due to her gender) she managed to gain a place to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where she excelled. A professor of medicine, she because a world world authority on the liver. Died in London.
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Dame Sheila Sherlock
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Sheila Sherlock
Dame Sheila Sherlock, MD, FRS, 1918 - 2001, world authority on the liver, pro...
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W. Humphris Winny, OBE, AMIEE
Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1891-1927. Knight Grace in the Order of St John. The 1904 publication "St Martin-le-Grand, Vol. XIV" contains an article written ...
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
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Receiving House
In 1774 a group of London doctors, concerned at the number of people who were mistakenly being given up for dead, wanted to promote new techniques of resuscitation. They decided to concentrate on d...
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Doctor Innes Pearse
Medical practitioner and biologist. Born Innes Hope Pearse in Purley, Surrey. She worked on thyroid research at the Royal Free Hospital, with George Scott Williamson who she later married. Together...
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Chelsea Hospital for Women
Set up in a house at 178 King's Road, this hospital, like many at the time, quickly found its premises too small. It moved into the first hospital to be built dedicated to gynaecological diseases, ...
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