Formed as the London Refraction Hospital (or the Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians), became the Institute of Optometry in 1988.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
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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Italian Hopsital, Queen Square
The Ospedale Italiano was founded by John Ortelli, to overcome the language problems encountered in other London hospitals. The hospital started in two houses he donated in Queen Square. These were...
Sir Peter Medawar
OM, FRS, Nobel Laureate. Born Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His pioneering wartime research on tissue grafting won him the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1960. Not a fan of psychoanalysis - ...
Moorfield Hospital
Moorfields provides some history. 2019: Moorfields may be moving to King's Cross, to the old St Pancras Hospital site, immediately north of St Pancras Gardens.
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Thomas Campbell
Sculptor. Born Edinburgh. Successfully established a studio in Rome for 10 years, and then also in London. Portrait busts a speciality. At one stage we had Thomas Campbell the sculptor confused...
Great Forest of Essex
E10, Walnut Road
These two memorials are on either side of the entrance to Walnut Road.
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