Henry VIII brought two organisations together in 1540 to form the Company of Barber-Surgeons. The surgeons broke away in 1745, bought the property in Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1797 and became the Royal College of Surgeons in 1800.
Their Lincoln's Inn building, on the south side, contains the seriously creepy Hunterian Museum.
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Bicentenary of the Royal College of Surgeons
This Oak tree (Quercus robur) was planted by Barry Jackson, President, The Ro...
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John Hunter, Lincoln's Inn Fields
{The front of the stone plinth is inscribed:} Hunter {On a plaque attached ...
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Sir John Simon
Surgeon and public health officer. Born City of London. His name is of French origin which is worth knowing for pronunciation purposes. 1848 appointed the first Medical Officer of Health for London...
2 memorials
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
Founded as The Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children. Its first premises were at 49 Great Ormond Street a converted 17th cen...
5 memorials
Hermann Michael Biggs
Born USA. Worked with cholera, tuberculosis and typhus, particularly in New York.
1 memorial
Horatio Prater
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has found someone who is probably our man, Andrew writes: I can find no evidence of an H. Prater in the Croydon area in the 1880's so I believe that the Historic Engla...
2 memorials
Keith Clifford Hall
Optician. Â Born Cambridge. Â Aged 17 apprenticed to an optician. Â Qualified with night-school study and began fitting contact lenses in 1934. Â Became a world specialist and published an early text ...
1 memorial
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