Formed as the London Refraction Hospital (or the Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians), became the Institute of Optometry in 1988.
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First refraction hospital in the world
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Institute of Optometry
In the correspondence pages of the 1927 BMJ the man named on the plaque, Fran...
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Sir Patrick Manson
Born in Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire. Physician who discovered that elephantiasis is spread by mosquitoes and suggested that mosquitoes also spread malaria. Founder of the original London School of ...
2 memorials
S. H. Vilven
Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1893-1925. Officer in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
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
Doctor Stephen Charles Gold, MD, FRCP
Dermatologist and author. He wrote 'A Biographical History of British Dermatology'. Our Picture Source and his obituary confirm he served during WW2 in the Royal Army Medical Corps for four years ...
1 memorial
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SHAEF, Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, WW2
Much of the planning for D-Day was carried out at Norfolk House. Eisenhower arrived there in January 1944 to take on the role of Supreme Allied Commander. c.April 1944 SHAEF moved out to Camp Grif...
5 memorials
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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