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Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
The School of Anatomy and Medicine adjoining St George's Hospital
Parallel form(s) of name
- Samuel Lane's School of Anatomy and Medicine
- Grosvenor Place School of Anatomy and Medicine
- Samuel Lane's School of Anatomy and Medicine
- Grosvenor Place School of Anatomy and Medicine
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Description area
Dates of existence
1827-1863
History
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.