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.
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Thomas Linacre
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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...
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S. J. Warren
Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1900-1945. Commander in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Royal Northern Hospital
Founded in 1856 by Dr. Sherard Freeman Statham (dismissed from University College Hospital for smacking a patient's bottom) at 11 York Road (later York Way), and expanded into numbers 9 and 10. 18...
10 memorials
Western Dispensary
From AIM25:"The Western Dispensary was founded in Charles Street, Westminster, in 1789, 'for gratuitously administering advice, medicines and attendance to the poor inhabitants of the City of Westm...
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
Mrs A. Calvin Lines
Lady District Superintendent in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1893-1923. Dame Grace in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
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First underground passenger railway - Metropolitan
Between Paddington and Farringdon. A grand opening on the 9th preceded the opening to the public on Saturday 10 January 1863. “That afternoon Hetta trusted herself all alone to the mysteries of th...
4 memorials
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