A London livery company. Originally part of the Grocers’ Company, they separated when they were granted their own royal charter in 1617. The Apothecaries Act of 1815 granted them the power to license and regulate practitioners of medicine in England and Wales. The society is based at the Apothecaries’ Hall in Blackfriars.
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Worshipful Society of Apothecaries
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea The Chelsea Physic Garden was establ...
Nurse and midwife. She trained at University College Hospital and at the British Lying-in Hospital. In 1868 she took charge of the surgical wards at King’s College Hospital, and a year later was a...
Psychiatrist and wife of furniture designer Jack Pritchard. Born as Rosemary Cooke.
President of The Royal College of Surgeons of England in October 2000.
Oculist to the court of Hungary.
Lady District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1914-1939. Serving Sister in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
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