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Bond, Heather

  • Person
  • 1939-?

Trained and worked at St George's as an occupational health nurse, and was later honorary secretary of the St George's Nurses' League. Also worked as a trade union officer for the Royal College of Nursing.

Cranston, Patricia

  • Person
  • ?

Trained at St George's 1943-1946. Sister and later Senior Nursing Officer at St George's, 1948. Night superintendent in 1950, and in 1951 appointed sister of Queen Victoria Ward, a female medical ward. Assistant matron in 1964. Senior medical nursing officer in 1968 until her retirement in 1976. President of St George's Nurses' League. A ward was named after her in 1979 at St George's, Hyde Park Corner. Known to student nurses by the nickname 'Cranny'.

Johnson, Henry Charles

  • Person
  • 1808-1863

Educated at Great Windmill Street School. Student at St George's Hospital Medical School 1825.

House surgeon at St George's Hospital 1838, lecturer and demonstrator of anatomy at Kinnerton Street Medical School; taught Henry Gray. Assistant surgeon at St George's Hospital 1843-1853, surgeon 1853-1863.

Surgeon to the Pimlico Dispensary 1834, surgeon to the Asylum for the Blind and the School for the Indigent Blind.

Died of kidney disease on 28 Apr 1863 at 6 Savile Row. His brother Edmond founded a prize in memory of him in the medical school.

Denman, Thomas

  • Person
  • 1733-1815

Pupil at St George's in the 1750s

McEntee, John Charles

  • Person
  • 1900-1969

Born in Sligo, Ireland. Educated at Clongowes Wood College and Trinity College, Dublin.

Moved to England and joined a practice in a Derbyshire coal district before moving to London. Assistant medical officer at the North Western Hospital, Hampstead.

Physician in charge of the infectious diseases unit at the Grove Hospital in 1962, when the hospital was taken over by St George's. Lecturer in infectious diseases at St Thomas's Hospital. Physician in charge of the infectious diseases at the South Western Hospital. Physician to the Victoria Hospital for Children, Tite Street. Smallpox consultat to the Ministry of Health in 1962. Lecturer in infectious diseases to St George's Medical School. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

Published on infectious and children's diseases, including scarlet fever, diphtheria, pertussis, measles and children's diarrhoea.

Married Nora Ruth Walding Prag in 1941; they had two daughters and a son. Retired in 1965, but retained his smallpox consultancy and honorary consultancy to St George's; became a part-time school medical officer.

Steele, Daphne

  • Person
  • 1927-2004

Studied nursing at St James' Hospital. First Black matron in Britain.

Fry, Susan

  • Person
  • ?

Medical photographer at St George's Hospital, c.1960s. Associate of the Royal Photographic Society. Contributed photographs to an 'Illustrated Guide for Theatre Nurses' (1961).

Penfold, Margaret J.

  • Person
  • ?

Theatre sister at St George's, 1951-1963. Co-authored an 'Illustrated Guide for Theatre Nurses' with her colleague A. Marjorie Matthias (1961).

Matthias, A. Marjorie

  • Person
  • ?

Theatre sister/superintendent at St George's, Hyde Park Corner, 1948-1953 and 1954-?. Co-authored an 'Illustrated Guide for Theatre Nurses' with her colleague Margaret Penfold (1961).

Hanks, Helen

  • Person
  • c.1890s-1949

Trained as a nurse at St George's, 1910-1913, and worked there continuously as ward sister, night superintendent, sister tutor, and finally matron (1930-1947)

Friend, Phyllis

  • Person
  • 1922-2013

Deputy matron at St George's, 1956-1959, although she spent most of her nursing career at the Royal London Hospital. Later appointed Chief Nursing Officer at the Department of Health and Social Security, a post she held until retirement in 1982. Appointed CBE in 1972 and DBE (Damehood) in 1980.

Anderson, Judy

  • Person
  • ?

Director of Nursing Services at Atkinson Morley's Hospital, c.1980s-1990s, and subsequently Chief Nurse at St George's

Martin, Cath

  • Person
  • ?

Trained and worked as a nurse at St George's, 1948-1952

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