A collegiate church and hospital on the north side of Cheapside on the site now occupied by Mercers' Hall and Chapel.
Founded by Thomas Fitzthebald de Heil and Agnes his wife, sister to Thomas Becket, in the reign of Henry II. Also known as 'St. Thomas of Acres'. Founded as church in 1227.
Following the dissolution of the monasteries, the Mercers’ Company purchased the site from Henry VIII in 1542 and continued the school as the Mercers' School.
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Hospital of St Thomas of Acon
Mercers’ school, 1542 – 1959 In 1542 the Mercers’ Company purchased the site ...
School in Hayes, in the Borough of Hillingdon at which George Orwell taught from 1932 - 1933. He is top right in the photograph.
In full, the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care. The world's first nursing school to be continuously connected to a fully serving hospital (St Thomas's) and me...
Jessica Elleisse Huntley (née Carroll) was an Guyanese-British political reformer and prominent race equality campaigner. She was a publisher of Black and Asian literature, and a women's and commun...
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"The school was established by Reverend Edward Blick ... and was in use from 1836 and although it ceased to be used for that purpose in 1910 when a new school opened nearby, the building itself sur...
Bridewell Palace was given by Edward VI in 1553 to the City of London to house this school, founded by royal charter in the same year.  In 1867 the school moved to Surrey and changed its name to Ki...
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