Ophthalmic surgeon and anatomist. Best known for his research using microscopes to study various human organs, though during his lifetime he pursued a successful career as an ophthalmologist.
Born Cheshire. Died at Joldwynds, his home in Holmbury St Mary, Surrey which he had commissioned in 1870 from Philip Webb. This house was demolished in 1930 and replaced with a modernist house.
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Sir William Bowman
Sir William Bowman, 1816 - 1892, ophthalmic surgeon and anatomist, lived here...
George Joseph Hamilton Evatt was born on 11 November 1843 in Dublin, Ireland, the eldest child of Captain George Joseph Evatt of the 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot (1813-1858) and Mary Anne Evatt n...
This institution, Beth Holim, originated in Leman Street in 1748, moving to Mile End, the site of what is now Albert Stern House, in 1790. The site was already in use as a Jewish women’s hospital ...
Surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital. Wrote a biography of fellow surgeon John Hunter. Married Dame Frances Violet Gardner (1913-1989), another medical consultant. AIM gives their impressive CVs. We'...
Born Dunedin, New Zealand. Pioneering plastic surgeon who worked for the Royal Air Force during World War II, treating badly burnt aircrew. Appointed C.B.E. in 1944. Knighted 1947. Helped found ...
Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1911-1942. Officer in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
We can find no confirmation that More lived at Eltham, though he probably visited his daughter, Margaret Roper, at her home there. From e...
Composer. Born Herbert Norman Howells at High Street, Lydney, Gloucestershire. He studied under Charles Stanford at the Royal College of Music and succeeded Gustav Holst as director of music at St ...
Communist revolutionary and founder of modern Vietnam. Left Vietnam in 1911 and worked on ships as a kitchen helper. In New York he was a baker at the Parker House Hotel. In 1913 he arrived in Lond...
Born on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent in 1808 to slave parents. Born with vitiligo, also known as piebaldism he was, as a baby, put on show in the capital, Kingstown. Aged 15 months he was ta...
Musician. Co-founder of the Pink Floyd rock group. Initially he was the group's bassist and went on to become its lyricist.
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