John Hunter (1728-1793) came to London in 1748 at the age of 20 and worked as an assistant in the anatomy school of his elder brother William (1718-83), who was already an established physician and obstetrician. Under William's direction, John learnt human anatomy and showed great aptitude in the dissection and preparation of specimens. William also arranged for him to study under the eminent surgeons William Cheselden (1688-1752) and Percivall Pott (1714-88).

Hunter was commissioned as an army surgeon in 1760 and spent three years in France and Portugal. As well as developing new ideas on the treatment of common ailments - such as gunshot wounds and venereal disease - Hunter spent time collecting specimens of lizards and other animals. On his return to England in 1763 he began to build up his private practice. His scientific work was rewarded in 1767 when he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1768 he was elected Surgeon to St George's Hospital, and in 1783 he moved to a large house in Leicester Square, which enabled him to take resident pupils and to arrange his collection into a teaching museum.

Hunter devoted all his resources to his museum. It included nearly 14,000 preparations of more than 500 different species of plants and animals. As his reputation grew, he was supplied with rare specimens such as kangaroos brought back by Sir Joseph Banks from James Cook’s voyage of 1768-71.

While most of his contemporaries taught only human anatomy, Hunter's lectures stressed the relationship between structure and function in all kinds of living creatures. Hunter believed that surgeons should understand how the body adapted to and compensated for damage due to injury, disease or environmental changes. He encouraged students such as Edward Jenner and Astley Cooper to carry out experimental research and to apply the knowledge gained to the treatment of patients.

By the 1780s Hunter enjoyed widespread recognition as the leading teacher of surgery of his time. However, the acclaim did little to mellow his blunt-speaking and argumentative nature. His temper was to be his downfall: Hunter died in 1793 after suffering a fit during an argument at St George's Hospital over the acceptance of students for training.

Hunter is today remembered as a founder of `scientific surgery'. He was unique in seeking to provide an experimental basis to surgical practice, and his museum is a lasting record of his pioneering work

Educated at the Great Windmill Street School and St George’s Hospital. On his application as an assistant surgeon at St George’s in 1834, however, he was turned down in favour of Edward Cutler. Feeling he had been unfairly treated because Cutler was a relative of Benjamin Collins Brodie, Lane founded a rival anatomical school nearby at Grosvenor Place; the school soon became popular and was one of the schools attended by the pupils from St George’s Hospital.

Lane became senior surgeon to St Mary’s Hospital soon after its establishment in 1852, and Lane transferred his pathological and anatomical collections to the new school at St Mary’s Hospital. He also worked at the Lock Hospital. He was one of the original 300 fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons, and a member of the Council. He was also a fellow, member of the Council and vice-president of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society.

He was known as a skilled surgeon, and was one of the first to practice ovariotomy. He also performed the first successful blood transfer to treat haemophilia in 1840. He published a series of well-received articles on syphilis, however, being opposed to medical specialisms he refused to continue publishing on the subject.

He retired to Ealing, and died 2 Aug 1892, aged 90. His nephew James Robert Lane and his great-nephew James Ernest Lane continued his work at St Mary’s Hospital and with syphilis.

Vice-dean of St George's Medical School. Admissions assessor; developed an algorithm aimed at making the admission process more efficient in 1979 by automating the process. An inquiry in 1986 found, however, that the process was weighted against 'non-Caucasian' and female applicants. The Commission for Racial Equality found St George's guilty of racial and gender discrimination in its admission policy in 1988.

Born at Sandgate, Kent. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Student at St George's Hospital Medical School Medical School 1872. House surgeon at St George's Hospital 1876; demonstrator of anatomy, surgical registrar, joint lecturer in physiology, lecturer in practical surgery, demonstrator of operative surgery. Assistant surgeon 1880-1895, surgeon 1895-1912. Chairman of the Medical School Committee. Visiting surgeon at Atkinson Morley's Convalescent Home, Wimbledon.

Magister Chirurgiae in 1899. Examiner in surgery at the University of Cambridge. Surgeon to the Belgrave Hospital for Children. Chief surgeon to the Metropolitan Police in 1904. Secretary to the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society 1901-1904, president of the Surgical section of the Royal Society of Medicine, secretary and vice-president of the Medical Society of London. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons; Hunterian professor, member of the Court of Examiners, member of the Council, senior vice-president. Travelled to South Africa for the Second Boer War in 1899; acted as correspondent to the British Medical Journal.

He was an active mountaineer in his free time. He never married. Died unexpectedly of septic poisoning 26 Aug 1912, and was buried at Kensal Green.

Educated at the City and Guilds Institute, London and St Mary's Hospital; BSc 1890; qualified as a doctor 1894. Held a number of junior appointments at St Mary's and at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic; assistant physician 1902, physician 1921.

Assistant physician at St George's Hospital 1904-1908, physician 1908-1928, consulting physician 1928; lecturer on medicine and neurology.

Lecturer on neurology at the Bethlem Royal Hospital. Visiting staff at the Royal Eye Hospital. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; Lumleian lecturer, FitzPatrick lecturer and Harveian orator; senior censor. Published on neurology.

Married Minna Summerhayes in 1906; they had two daughters and one son. His elder brother was Horace Stansfield Collier, FRCS. He died 9 Feb 1935 at home in London.

Educated at Rugby, from where he entered St George's Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1907 with the conjoint diploma. He took the Fellowship in 1908, the MB, BS London in 1909 and was elected to the staff of St George's in 1912.

From 1914 to 1918 he served in France, first as surgeon and commanding officer of the 2nd London Casualty Clearing Station, and later as consulting surgeon to the 5th Army with the rank of colonel. He was mentioned in Dispatches three times and was awarded the DSO in 1918 and the CBE in 1919. He returned to St George's in 1919.

In 1921 he took the MS London and achieved a gold medal. He was a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1926-1934. In 1937 he was elected president of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland and in 1938 the president of the Surgical Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. In the Second World War he was appointed director of the Emergency Medical Service for London and the Home Counties. He was knighted in 1945.

Established by a former student of St George’s, Samuel Armstrong Lane after being rejected from the post of assistant surgeon at St George’s Hospital in 1834. The school was housed at the back of Lane’s house on 1 Grosvenor Place, near St George’s Hospital on Hyde Park Corner, and soon became known as the School of Anatomy and Medicine adjoining St George’s Hospital. The school was in competition with the Kinnerton Street School, formally established in 1836, which became the official medical school for St George’s; pupils at the hospital could attend either of these schools, as well as a number of other anatomical schools. Lane became senior surgeon to St Mary’s Hospital soon after its establishment in 1852, and Lane transferred his pathological and anatomical collections to the new school at St Mary’s Hospital. Lane’s school closed down in 1863.

Born in Edinburgh. Trained as a nurse at St George's 1919-1923.

Joined the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service in 1923; promoted to sister in 1926 and senior sister in 1939, serving in the UK and in the Middle East. Acting matron during the Second World War. Appointed Associate of the Royal Red Cross in 1941. Matron of the RAF Hospital in Normandy following the Normandy Landings, and in 1944-1945 in Brussels, Belgium. Member of the Royal Red Cross in 1945. Matron at the RAF Hospital in Matlock, Derbyshire, a psychiatric hospital specialising in treating former prisoners of war. Matron-in-chief of Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service 1948; given the rank of air commandant in 1949 when the women's forces were integrated into the British Armed Forces. Commander of the Order of St John 1949. Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1951. Retired 1952.

Died in 1969 in Edinburgh.

Medical Superintendent of London County Lunatic Asylum, Hanwell. Teacher of clinical insanity for St George's students in the 1890s

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'.

Ward orderly and nurse at St George's Hospital 1946-1980

The first private anatomy school in London, the school was established by William Hunter in 1745. Initially housed in Covent Garden and the Haymarket, Hunter commissioned a purpose-built school in 1768 on Great Windmill Street, where his collections of anatomical preparations was displayed in the museum alongside the anatomy theatre. A popular school, the students were taught anatomy on the dissected corpses of hanged criminals. The school closed in 1836, by which time multiple schools of anatomy had been established, many by the former students at Great Windmill Street.