Physician, geologist, political activist. Parkinson's disease is his. Born 1 Hoxton Square. Died at home, 3 Pleasant Row, Kingsland Road.
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James Parkinson
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Bagnigge House
The house was built on the site of the, supposedly holy, Bagnigge Wells (mineral springs) in 1678. Â Nell Gwynne was supposed to have lived in this house. The picture shows the house c. 1790. In th...
Barts Guild
There is a good history of the Guild on their history page, which is based on Ann Wickham’s book A Century of Service. We wonder if Ann Wickham, who designed this logo, was John Wickham's wife. Be...
Group, Benefactor, Community / Clubs, Medicine, Social Welfare
Doctor Harold Moody
Physician. Born Harold Arundel Moody at 8 Rum Lane, Kingston, Jamaica. Although well qualified, he was refused a post at King's College Hospital because of his colour, but became a medical superint...
Dame Rosalind Paget
Nurse and midwife. Trained at the British Lying-in Hospital. She was the first superintendent, and later inspector general, of the Queen's Jubilee Institute for District Nursing at the London Hospi...
Major William Napier, M.B., B.Ch., F.R.C.S.I.
William Napier was born in 1893 in Down, County Down, Ireland (now Northern Ireland), one of the nine children of Alexander Napier (1855-1934) and Hester Mary Napier née Maxwell (1863-1920). In th...

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