London Hospital

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Employer	Laura Ormiston Chant	On leaving school, Laura Ormiston Dibbin briefly joined her family at Bruton in Somerset. She then took a teaching position at Huddersfield in Yorkshire, but found both the job and the climate too demanding...
Family and Intimate relationships	Eleanor Rathbone	Another of ER 's cousins, Rosalind Paget , was a nurse at the London Hospital and became a co-founder of the Midwives' Institute (Royal College of Midwives ), which was established in 1881. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Dame (Mary) Rosalind Paget
Family and Intimate relationships	Helen Mathers	The son of a naval architect, Henry Reeves was born at Calcutta in India. He was educated at the grammar school at St Albans and at the Middlesex Hospital in London, and it...
Occupation	Catherine Marsh	On learning that a cholera epidemic in the East End of London was overcrowding the London Hospital , CM left at once for London. There she prayed with dying people and assured parents that their...
Textual Production	Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda	Their letter, which was published on 30 March, was a response to previous correspondence from Sir James Purves-Stewart , Senior Physician at Westminster Hospital . He had written that new women medical students should not...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Florence Nightingale	This letter makes an appeal for funds for the London Hospital . Bishop, William John, and Sue Goldie. A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale. Dawsons for the International Council of Nurses, 1962. 99

Timeline

1740

The London Infirmary opened: it became the London Hospital during the 1750s, and was later known as the hospital where Eva Lückes was Matron.

Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.

27 October 1785

The London Hospital Medical College , established this year, opened its operating theatre.

Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.

The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.

1620

Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.

55 (1785): 914

September 1876

Eva Lückes entered Middlesex Hospital as a paying probationer; she became a certified nurse less than two years later.