President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1971 - 1973. He died suddenly while in the post. Also, strangely, was Master of the Worshipful Company of Fanmakers, 1958.
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Sir Edward Muir
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Sir Edward Muir
This Silver Maple tree (Acer saccharinum) was planted in 1973 in memory of Si...
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Nightingale Nurse Training School
In full, the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care. The world's first nursing school to be continuously connected to a fully serving hospital (St Thomas's) and me...
1 memorial
Dr. Joseph T Clover
Anaesthetist. Born in Aylsham, Norfolk. Buried in Brompton Cemetery. He devised apparatus for the administration of chloroform and for the use of nitrous oxide and ether and was recognised by h...
1 memorial
Sir Hans Sloane
Physician, benefactor of the British Museum and an early benefactor to the Chelsea Physic Garden. Responsible for the addition of milk to chocolate to produce a palatable drink. Born Killyleagh, Ir...
Person, Benefactor, Medicine, Museums / Libraries, Race Issues, Science, Ireland
8 memorials
Annette Mendelsohn
Child & adolescent psychotherapist. Born in London to a Belgian Jewish refugee mother. First a teacher to people with learning difficulties, then a dancer, then a career in psychotherapy. Mar...
1 memorial
Jessie Craigen
Jessie Hannah Craigen was a working-class suffrage speaker. She was also a freelance (or 'paid agent') speaker in the campaigns for Irish Home Rule and the cooperative movement and against vivisect...
1 memorial
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William Charles Niblett
EC4, Inner Temple
The date of birth given on the plaque, 1856, is wrong. Niblett was born in 1851.
1 subject commemorated
St Mary's trompe l'oeil - Unknown 3
W2, St Mary's Square, Blossom Lower School
This 1981 Quinlan Terry building was originally the vestry or parish hall. It is decorated with trompe l'oeil statuary, 2 items on each o...
Sir Leonard Woolley
Archaeologist. Born at 13 Southwold Road, Hackney. He was one of the first modern archaeologists, who excavated in a methodical way, keeping careful records, and using them to reconstruct ancient l...
1 memorial
Sir Ernest George
Architect. Born 9 Portland Place, now Bartholomew Street, SE1. His partnership with Harold Peto was extremely successful. They designed many of the houses in Harrington and Collingham Gardens inclu...
5 memorials
St Paul's dome - recast
EC4, Cannon Street, St Paul's Cathedral
These plaques were generously photographed for us, at great risk of life and limb, by Matt Brown of Londonist on a privileged visit to th...
15 subjects commemorated
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