Zepherina Veitch (1836 -1894)
Dame Rosalind Paget (1855 - 1948)
Pioneering midwives trained at the British Lying-in Hospital, founded 1739 and sited here, 1849 - 1913.
Seven Dials Trust
The plaque gives 1739 as the foundation date but sources give 1749.
WC2, Endell Street, 24
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Rosalind Paget and Zepherina Veitch
Initially called the Lying-In Hospital for Married Women. ( 'Lying-in' is an ...
Nurse and midwife. Trained at the British Lying-in Hospital. She was the firs...
Nurse and midwife. She trained at University College Hospital and at the Brit...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Rosalind Paget and Zepherina Veitch
A. J. Cronin, 1896 - 1981, Scottish novelist and General Practitioner, practised in this house, 1926 - 1930. Royal College of General Pra...
There was a row of houses here called Hanover Cottages. Â You can see them on the wonderful Time Travel Explorer map of 1830.Â
Currently, 2011, used by the National Opera as a studio. The current building is a hall, opened in 1883, with a total of 6 plaques all on...
The development of the southern side of Great Queen Street is complex: it's a story of overlapping rebuildings and extensions to the Free...
Londonist have a eye-witness account of this event.
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