Surgeon who founded two hospitals. 1828 established a small dispensary in Greville Street which was the first to provide free treatment even to people not sent by the benefactors of the institution. This became the Royal Free Hospital.
He also founded the Cancer Free Hospital, in 1851, later to become the Royal Marsden.
Born Sheffield. Died at the Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond, Surrey.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
William Marsden
Order of St John of Jerusalem The Order of St John of Jerusalem combined religion, crusading military might and the care of the sick. 1309-1522 the primary home of the Order was the island of Rhode...
Instigated by Canon John Erskine Clarke, Bolingbroke House (see below for more information) was acquired and opened in 1880 as Bolingbroke Self-Supporting Hospital and House in Sickness. The buildi...
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...
Founded the Camden Road doctors' surgery in the late 1920s in the building where he also lived. He served there as a GP for 60 years, keeping the surgery open through the Blitz. It is one of the ...
From the always useful Lost Hospitals of London: "The St Francis Hospital for Infants was founded in a small house in Hampstead {6 Denning Road} in 1903 by Helen Levis, {first} wife of the industri...
On this site there used to be a sister hotel to Hotel Russell, also designed by Charles Fitzroy Doll and erected in 1898. It was demolish...
Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.
We haven't collected the seated ballerina statue since it is not commemorative, as far as we know, but it does belongs to the select grou...
Evangelical Christian. Born Clapham, son of Rev John Venn. Graduated from Cambridge as 19th wrangler, which we learn means he was the 19th highest scoring undergraduate in mathematics. Rector in...
Plaque unveiled by Sir Derek Jacobi.
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