Born Canterbury. Studied at Oxford, Rome and Vicenza. Physician to Henry VIII. After 11 years as a doctor he became a priest, giving away his wealth to promote the study of medicine and establishing the Royal College of Physicians, of which he was the First President 1518 - 24.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Thomas Linacre
Commemorated ati
Linacre bust
This bust is fixed to the wall of the building in the garden seen in the pict...
Thomas Linacre
In a house on this site lived Thomas Linacre, physician 1460 - 1524. Corpora...
Other Subjects
Moorfield Hospital
Moorfields provides some history. 2019: Moorfields may be moving to King's Cross, to the old St Pancras Hospital site, immediately north of St Pancras Gardens.
Guy's & St Thomas' Charities Foundation
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 whi...
Dr George Webster
General Practioner. Founded the first British Medical Association, which existed 1836 - 1845. Worked in Dulwich, 1815 until his death in 1875. At Genealogy we find: " Dr Webster b Brechin {north ...
Dr. Dennis Geffen
O.B.E., M.D., D.P.H., Metropolitan Borough of Saint Pancras, 1844 - 1959. Worked in the polio field.