Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1836 - 1919, was born in a house formerly on this site. The first woman to be registered as a medical practitioner and surgeon. Founder of the first hospital for and staffed by women.
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
E1, Commercial Road, Metropolitan University, 41-47
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - birth
Born in Whitechapel. She was the first female doctor to be trained in Britain...
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - birth
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
Rudolf Nureyev, 1938 - 1993, ballet dancer, lived here. English Heritage
We don't understand why the plaque presents the name as 'Cole Church' since everywhere else it's given as 'Colechurch'. St. Thomas Becke...
English Heritage John Desmond Bernal, 1901 - 1971, crystallographer, lived and died here.
We have another page showing the memorial in its new location.
Below two of the ground floor windows, on the stone window surrounds, are carved about 15 sets of initials (including E. K. G.; F. E.; K....
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