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
Samuel Kitching Ellison was born in 1813 in Skipton, Yorkshire, the fifth of the eight children of James Ellison (c.1781-1851) and Arabella Ellison née Kitching (c.1781-1866). Baptismal records sho...
District Chief Surgeon in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1887-1907. Knight Grace in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Born Hafod, Carmarthenshire. Posted to India where he began his investigations into cholera.
The new RNH Casualty Department, funded by the Islington War Memorial Fund, was opened in 1923 and closed in 1992 along with the rest of ...
In our photo both these plaques are behind, and to the right of, the modern standing sign, with the paving stone in the ground directly b...
Chief Justice of England during the reign of Henry IV. Born Yorkshire.
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
VD, JP. Son of James Bevington. A member of the Bermondsey leather manufacturing dynasty and a philanthropist. Colonel commanding 3rd Volunteer Battalion The Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment 18...
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