It can trace its origins back to 1553, when King Edward VI re-established St Thomas' hospital, having been closed during the Reformation. In 1721, Thomas Guy funded the building of the hospital which now bears his name. Foundation trust status was achieved in 2004.
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Guy's & St Thomas' Charities Foundation
Jonson seems to have had a special ability with elegies for children, not lea...
On this site, poet & apothecary John Keats, & his friend, the poet, a...
Unveiled by Andrew Motion, author of a Keats biography. The quotation comes ...
{On a nearby modern plaque:} The London Bridge niche. Portland stone. The sto...
Pathologist. He was involved in founding haematology (the study of blood) and...
Hospital for women and children. Founded by surgeons Eleanor Davies-Colley an...
Founded the Camden Road doctors' surgery in the late 1920s in the building wh...
Founded by Thomas Linacre in 1518 with a charter granted by Henry VIII. Thei...
