Alder President associated with St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1702. A director of the slave trading Royal African Company and a governor of the colonial Irish Society.
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Sir William Prichard
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St Bartholomew's Hospital - founding
{The cornice above the arch reads:} St Bartholomew's Hospital, founded by Ra...
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Edward Beadon Turner, F.R.C.S.
For many years he took a prominent part in the work of the British Medical Association having been chairman of the representative body from 1915-1918 and a member of the Council from 1912-1931. He ...
1 memorial
German Hospital
Opened with 12 beds in 1845. The local German community was very large at this time and nurses were recruited from Germany from the Kaiserworth Institute. Florence Nightingale was so inspired by th...
2 memorials
King George Hospital, HMSO, Stamford Street
From the Survey of London and Ezitis (excellent) we learn that the five storey Cornwall House, built as warehouse for H.M. Stationery Office, was completed in the middle of WW1 and so was used unti...
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Percy Lane Oliver
Founder of the first voluntary blood donor service. Born in Fish Street, St Ives, Cornwall. In 1921, he helped found the Camberwell division of the British Red Cross Society, and conceived the idea...
1 memorial
Walter Reed
American army surgeon prominent in proving that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes. Born Belroi, Virginia. Died Washington.
1 memorial
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