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Zinkeisen, Anna

  • Person

Painted a portrait of Henry Elliott Blake, donated to St George's in 1988 by his widow

Zimmermann, Benjamin Frazier

  • Person
  • 1855-?

Born 18th April 1855. Entered St George's Hospital in 1872. Member of Royal College of Surgeons and Licentiate of Royal College of Physicians.

He was a surgeon, later surgeon captain in 1885, in the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's Service. He became surgeon major in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1898. He served on an expedition to the west coast of Africa in 1887 and was awarded a medal. He retired in 1905 but returned to the War Office at the outbreak of the first world war in 1914 and served as major in the Royal Army Medical Corps on medical boards at the War Office and Adastral House. He was employed when on retired list at Topsham, Devon in 1905 and Lancaster in 1911.

Young, Thomas

  • Person
  • 1773-1829

Born in Somerset to a Quaker family. Studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, the University of Edinburgh Medical School and Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany; MD 1796 from the University of Göttingen. Entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1797.

Following an inheritance from his grand-uncle Richard Brocklesby he established a practice as a physician at 48 Welbeck Street. Appointed professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Institution in 1801; resigned in 1803 to return to medical practice. Fellow of the Royal Society in 1794; foreign secretary of the Royal Society in 1802. Physician to St George's Hospital in 1811.

Served on a committee considering the dangers of the introduction of gas lighting in London. Secretary of a commussion ascertaining the precise length of the seconds pendulum; secretary to the Board of Longiture, superintendent of the HM Nautical Almanac Office. Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Foreign associate of the French Academy of Sciences.Corresponding member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands and foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Interested in life insurance, theory of light and Egyptian hieroglyps, among various other things.

Married Eliza Maxwell in 1804; they had no children. Young died in London 10 May 1829, aged 56 of atherosclerosis of the aorta.

Young, Norma

  • Person
  • 1935-?

Born in Northumberland. Trained as a nursed at St George's, 1953-1957.

Young, Jim

  • Person

St George’s 1967. Surgeon R. Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.

Yorke, Margaret (nee Cocks)

  • Person
  • 1695 – 1761

Left a legacy of £50 in 1761

Wife of Philip Yorke, first Earl of Hardwicke and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain between 1737 – 1756.

Wyndowe, Samuel Jardine

  • Person
  • 1830-1919

Born in 1830, the son of Captain Wyndowe. He was educated at St George's Hospital where he was dresser to Frank Buckland, and took the diploma of MRCS in 1854, and the degree of MD, King's College, Aberdeen in 1860.

He entered the Indian Medical Service as Assistant Surgeon in 1854, became Surgeon in 1866, Surgeon-Major in 1873, and Brigade-Surgeon in 1879. He retired in 1881 and in 1882 he went to India as he was appointed to a cavalry regiment of the Nagpur Irregular Forice. In 1860 he was posted to civil employement in the Central Provinces, and soon after was appointed professor of chemistry in the Madras Medical College, and chemical examiner to the Government of Madras. In August 1867 he was given the residency surgeoncy of Haidarabad and held that post until his retirement. He served in the Indian Mutiny from 1857 to 1859 and took part in the engagement at Sambulpur. He received the Mutiny medal.

He died at Uley, Gloucestershire, on March 19th 1919, aged 89.

Wyndham, Percy

  • Person
  • 1835-1911

Subscriber to St George's Hospital in 1868. British soldier, Conservative politician, collector and intellectual. He was an original member of the Souls, an intellectual group of high society individuals. Wyndham was a spiritualist with an interest in parapsychology. He was a member of the London Spiritualist Alliance and the Society for Psychical Research.

Wyndham, Henry

  • Person
  • 1830-1901

Subscriber to St George's Hospital in 1871. British peer and Conservative MP

Wright, Richard

  • Person
  • ?

MD Cantab. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians London. Physician at St George’s Hospital 1769-1785.

Wreden, [Unknown]

  • Person
  • ?

Surgeon at St George’s Hospital 1733/4-1737/8

Worshipful Company of Mercers

  • Corporate body

Subscriber to St George's Hospital in 1870. Livery company in the City of London for general merchants

Worshipful Company of Fishmongers

  • Corporate body

Subscriber to St George's Hospital in 1880. Livery company in the City of London and an incorporated guild for sellers of fish and seafood in the city.

Worshipful Company of Drapers

  • Corporate body
  • 1361-present

Subscriber to St George's Hospital in 1881. One of the livery companies of the City of London.

Worreys, Mary

  • Person

Left a legacy of £10 in 1748.

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