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Bevan, Charles Edward

  • Person
  • 1905-1956

Student at St George's; qualified 1931. House physician, house surgeon, R.O.A. and casualty officer at St George's.

In Colonial Medical Service from 1933. Worked on tuberculosis in Cyprus, including at Kyperounda Sanatorium, for the Cyprus Government and for the Cyprus Asbestos Company.

Died in 1956; his obituary states that he was 'murdered by terrorists in Cyprus while attending a patient'

Bewers, Owen Percival

  • Person
  • 1900-1972

Born 18 February 1900. Educated at Palmer's Endowed School, Essex, and King's College London. Entered St George's Hospital in 1919. M.R.C.S. L.R.C.P. 1925, M.B., B.S. in 1926.

He held positions as resident anaesthetist at St George's Hospital, house surgeon at St John and Elizabeth Hospital, resident medical officer at Kent and Canterbury Hospital, honorary medical officer at Thetford Cottage Hospital, and medical officer for the General Post Office Thetford. He also had a general practice. In 1918 he was in the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force. In 1939 he was captain in the home guard.

In 1926 he married Joan M. Hicks. After she died in 1955, he married Daphne M. Phillips in 1957. He died in 1972.

Bicknell, Dorothy Joan

  • Person

Professor, Department of Psychiatry of Disability. Retired 1990

Birch, John William

  • Person
  • 1811-1891

Subscriber to St George's Hospital in 1860. English rationalist writer. His father had been an East India Company ship captain.

Bischoffsheim, Henri Louis

  • Person
  • 1829-1908

Subscriber to St George's Hospital in 1869. Banker and philanthropist

Biscoe, Elisha

  • Person

Left a legacy of £100 in 1777

Built Spring Grove House in 1754, now site of West Thames College. Spring Grove House was later leased by Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), a botanist who accompanied James Cook on his first voyage.

Bishop of Durham

  • Person

Left a legacy of £50 in 1748.

?William Talbot, who died at Hanover Square in 1830, or his successor Edward Chandler (1666-1750)

Bishop, Sally

  • Person
  • ?

Trained as a nurse at St George's, 1970-1973

Black, Violet

  • Person

Matron at Atkinson Morley's Convalescent Home, Wimbledon.

Blackburn, [Unknown]

  • Person

Subscriber to St George's Hospital in 1866. Governor of St George's Hospital in 1866. This could either refer to Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn, or John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn. Baron Blackburn was a Scottish judge and Viscount Morley was a British liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. The Viscount also served as Chief Secretary of Ireland twice and as Secretary of State for India between 1905 and 1910.

Blagden, Robert

  • Person
  • 1825-1898

Student at St George's Hospital Medical School 1844; MRCS 1849. Surgical registrar and surgeon at St George's Hospital.

Surgeon at St James's Dispensary. Moved to Stroud, Gloucestershire in 1861. Honorary assistant surgeon at Gloucestershire Volunteers. Moved to Minchinhampton near Stroud in 1890. Surgeon at Minchinhampton Dispensary.

Died at Teddington 22 Oct 1898, aged 73.

Blake, Henry

  • Person
  • 1871-?

Entered St George's Hospital as a student in 1871.

Blanchard, Wilkinson

  • Person
  • ?

MD Cantab. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians London. Physician at St George’s Hospital 1766-1770.

Blandford, George Fielding

  • Person
  • 1829-1911

Educated at Tonbridge School, Rugby School and Wadham College, Oxford; BA 1852, MA 1857.

Studied medicine at St George's in 1852; BM (Oxon) 1857, LSA 1857. MRCS 1858, MRCP 1860.

Resident medical officer at Blacklands House, a private asylum for gentlemen in London. Visiting physician to Blacklands House and its successor Newlands House in Tooting and to several other asylums alongside his private practice in Clarges Street, Grosvenor Street and later Wimpole Street.

Lecturer on psychological medicine at St George's 1865-1902.

FRCP 1869. President of the Medico-Psychological Association. Lumleian lecturer.

Leading author on mental illness legislation. Published 'Insanity and its Treatment' (1871) and widely on mental illness.

Married Louisa Holloway in 1864; they had two sons and two daughters. Retired to Tunbridge Wells.

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