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Agar-Robartes, Thomas

  • Person
  • 1844-1930

Subscriber to St George's Hospital in 1874. British landowner and Liberal politician.

Ager, Joshua

  • Person

Lecturer in chemistry, materia medica and physic at the Blenheim Street School of Medicine

Aird, John

  • Person
  • 1833-1911

Governor of St George’s Hospital 1893.

Civil engineer, Conservative politician and art collector. His country house, Wilton Park in Buckinghamshire, had been built by Josias du Pre, merchant, director of the East India Company and the governor of Madras.

Aird, Sarah

  • Person

Subscriber to St George's Hospital in 1880. Subscriber to St George's Hospital in 1880. Her husband John Aird was an English civil engineering contractor and He served as a Conservative MP. His firm was famous for building the first Aswan Dam between 1899 and 1902.

Aisbitt, Pamela

  • Person
  • 1933-?

Trained and worked as a nurse at St George's

Aisley, Stephen

  • Person

Governor of St George's Hospital 1780-1806

Akroyd, Edward

  • Person
  • 1810-1887

Governor of St George’s Hospital 1867. Textile manufacturer.

Aldis, Charles James Berridge

  • Person
  • 1806-1872

Student at St George's in 1836. Lecturer in medicine in private, at the Hunterian School of Medicine and at the Aldersgate Street School. Physician at various dispensaries.

Interested in sanitary reform. Medical officer of health in the parish of St George's, Hanover Square (where St George's Hospital and Medical School were located) in 1855. Member of the College of Physicians, Harveian orator.

Aldridge, Thomas

  • Person

First apothecary at St George’s Hospital in 1733; discharged after complaints in 1734

Alexander, Claud

  • Person
  • 1831-1899

Governor of St George’s Hospital 1870.

Conservative politician

Alexandra Hotel Company

  • Corporate body

Subscriber to St George's Hospital in 1863. Subscriber to St George's Hospital in 1863. The Alexandra Hotel opened in 1864 on Hyde Park Corner and is thought to have been designed by Francis E. H. Fowler. In 1941, a bomb exploded in the hotel, causing 24 deaths and 26 serious injuries. It was demolished and rebuilt in 1954.

Allbutt, Thomas Clifford

  • Person
  • 1836-1925

Born in Dewsbury 20 Jul 1836, son of Rev Thomas Allbutt and Marianne Wooler. Educated at St Peter's School, York and Caius College, Cambridge; graduated BA 1859 in natural sciences.

Studied medicine at St George's and Paris; MB 1860.

Consulting physician in Leeds. Worked at Leeds General Infirmary, Dispensary and Fever Hospital. Lecturer on physic and anatomy at Yorkshire College.

Invented a short-stemmed, portable clinical thermometer in 1866, which was able to record temperature in 5 minutes, instead of the previous 20 minutes. He was one of the first to use the ophthalmoscope, and extended its use beyond the diagnosis of ocular diseases. Published on syphilitic disease of the cerebral ateries and on the effects of strain on the heart.

Retired from medical practice in 1889 to become commissioner in lunacy. Made regius chair of physic at Cambridge in 1892. Edited 'System of Medicine', published in 8 volumes between 1896-1899; its second edition, together with Humphry Davy Rolleston, appeared in 11 volumes in 1905-1911. Physician at Addenbrooke's Hospital 1900. Member of the General Medical Council 1908-1918. Prominent at the Royal College of Physicians.

Married Susan England in 1869; they had no children. Died at Cambridge 22 Feb 1925.

Allen, George

  • Person

Porter, Atkinson Morley Hospital

Allen, H. J.

  • Person

Subscriber to St George's Hospital in 1882.

Allen, Hazel

  • Person
  • ?

Sister and tutor at St George's, c.1956-1968

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