Stood at Portugal Street / Carey Street from 1839 to 1913, when it moved to Denmark Hill, to a site given to it by WFD Smith, of W.H.Smiths.
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King's College Hospital
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Robert Bentley Todd
The statue was originally erected in the great hall of the old King's College...
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King's College Hospital
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Smiths - King's College Hospital
This plaque was placed on the Hospital's centenary. WH Smiths had given the H...
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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 - ...
2 memorials
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
Originally established by John Wilder to support psychiatric patients on discharge from hospital at a time when the Mental Health Act meant that psychiatric hospitals were being closed and replaced...
1 memorial
Thomas Wakley
Reformer and founder of "The Lancet" - begun in Oct 1823. Spoke in Parliament in defence of the Tolpuddle Martyrs. See Caroline's Miscellany for more information. Born Membury, Devon. Buried at K...
1 memorial
Association of Women Pharmacists
The Pharmaceutical Journal has "a short history of pharmacy and women".
1 memorial
Dr Owen Lankester
Chairman of the East End Maternity Hospital, 1902 - 1933. His obituary in Medical News 6 January 1934 tells us: Born Alfred Owen Lankester, brother to (the later) Sir Ray Lankester. Died at home...
1 memorial
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Rachel Elizabeth Rackow
Rachel Elizabeth Rackow was born on 5 July 1964, the youngest of the five children of Dr Francis Isidore Rackow (1922-2003) and Daphne Jean Rackow née Spittle (1928-2019). Her birth was registered ...
1 memorial
Thomas Bowman Stephenson
Wesleyan minister and benefactor. Born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1860. In 1869 he founded the Children's Home (now known as the charity Action for Children) to pro...
1 memorial
Robert Browning
Poet and playwright. Born Camberwell. His works include ‘Home Thoughts from Abroad’ and ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’. He fell in love with Elizabeth Barrett and married her secretly because of her ...
7 memorials
Rose Mary Crawshay
Philanthropist, feminist, educationist. Born Rose Mary Yeates in Horton, Buckinghamshire, to William Willson Yeates and his first wife Mary. When she was seven three of her baby sisters died in qui...
1 memorial
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