Who Was Who. A. and C. Black.
St Thomas's Hospital
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Lucy Boston | Lucy Wood (later LB
) left Oxford University
to serve as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, first at St Thomas's Hospital
, London, then at Addenbrookes Hospital
, Cambridge, and then a military... |
Education | Kathleen Caffyn | Kathleen Hunt (later KC
) studied with the National and Metropolitan Nursing Association
at St Thomas's Hospital
in London. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Marie Belloc Lowndes | Their son, Charles
(her eldest living child), Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan. 34 Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan. 36 |
Occupation | Naomi Mitchison | Naomi Haldane (later NM
) worked briefly at St Thomas's Hospital
in London as a VAD (volunteer auxiliary nurse), which would have been a wage-earning job in peace-time. Mitchison, Naomi. All Change Here: Girlhood and Marriage. Bodley Head. 124, 129 Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora. 26-7 |
Other Life Event | Florence Nightingale | The Nightingale School and Home for Nurses
opened at St Thomas's Hospital
in London with fifteen students. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Nightingale, Florence. Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale. Editors Vicinus, Martha and Bea Nergaard, Harvard University Press. 206, 441 |
Other Life Event | Florence Nightingale | By the early twenty-first century the immediate area of St Thomas's Hospital
featured a Florence Nightingale Museum
and a pub named after her. |
Reception | Mary Seacole | The Times demanded in November 1856 when MS
's financial straits became known: While the benevolent deeds of Florence Nightingale
are being handed down to posterity . . . are the humbler actions of Mrs... |
death | Edith Sitwell | ES
died at St Thomas's Hospital
in London, of a cerebral haemorrhage. Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 356 |
death | Angela Thirkell | During the summer of 1960, AT
was taken to St Thomas's Hospital
in southeast London, suffering from aplastic anaemia. She was transferred to Hyde-Stile
, a convalescent home near Godalming, and finally to Bramley, in Surrey. |
Timeline
1173: St Thomas's Hospital in London was dedicated;...
Building item
1173
St Thomas's Hospital
in London was dedicated; it may have originated in the infirmary of the Priory of St Mary Overy
in Southwark.
1726: Guy's Hospital was opened as a voluntary...
Building item
1726
Guy's Hospital
was opened as a voluntary hospital alongside St Thomas's Hospital
; the two United Hospitals of the Borough
[of Southwark] jointly undertook medical teaching.
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