Reformer and founder of "The Lancet" - begun in Oct 1823. Spoke in Parliament in defence of the Tolpuddle Martyrs. See Caroline's Miscellany for more information.
Born Membury, Devon. Buried at Kensall Green Cemetery.
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Thomas Wakley
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Thomas Wakley
London County Council Thomas Wakley, 1795 - 1862, reformer and founder of "T...
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Capt. L. H. R. Claydon, Late RAMC (V)
Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1919-1924. Serving Brother in the Order of St John.
Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
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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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Bromley by Bow Health Centre opened
The Bromley by Bow Centre grew out of a church group. In 1997 they opened the Healthy Living Centre which includes an NHS surgery, a cafe (very reasonably priced with great home-made cake on the d...
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Keith Clifford Hall
Optician. Born Cambridge. Aged 17 apprenticed to an optician. Qualified with night-school study and began fitting contact lenses in 1934. Became a world specialist and published an early text ...
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British Association of Dermatologists
The association is a charity, whose objects are the practice, teaching, training and research of dermatology. Its foundation was proposed in 1919 by Sir Archibald Gray, and at its first meeting, Si...
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