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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Mental Health Foundation
From the Picture source: "Our knowledge, informed by rigorous research and practical based study, has been pioneering change for more than 60 years and we aren't afraid to challenge the status quo ...
1 memorial
Dr. Joseph Rogers
Health care reformer. The picture source, an article on Rogers in the British Medical Journal, 16/12/1989, was kindly brought to my attention by one of its authors, Ruth Richardson.
1 memorial
British Medical Association
Founded as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association (PMSA) by Sir Charles Hastings in Worcester. In 1836 Dr George Webster founded an organisation called the British Medical Association. Fr...
5 memorials
Captain Ian Macdonald Brown, FRCS
Ian Macdonald Brown was born circa 1889 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, the youngest of the three children of John Macdonald Brown (1857-1935) and Caroline Helen Brown née Murray (1862-1928). ...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sir Astley Paston Cooper
Surgeon and anatomist. Born Norfolk. Studied at St Thomas's. 1800 he was appointed surgeon to Guy's Hospital. Fellow of the Royal Society. Professor of comparative anatomy to the Royal College of S...
1 memorial
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Robert Ryder VC
UB9, Breakspear Rd North, The Old Workhouse
Robert Edward Ryder, VC, 1895 - 1978. Born here on the 17th December 1895. Awarded the Victoria Cross for "most conspicuous bravery and i...
War served | WW1
2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
WB Yeats - Woburn Walk
WC1, Woburn Walk, 5
William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and dramatist, lived in this house, then known as 18 Woburn Buildings, from 1895 to 1919.
1 subject commemorated
Giuseppe Mazzini - NW1
NW1, North Gower Street, 185
Mazzini arrived in this house in 1840 when the address was 9 George Street.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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