Spent most of his life in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, where he was born (in the vicarage) and died (at home,The Chantry). First doctor to study smallpox vaccine. Trained with John Hunter at St George's Hospital, 1770-2. Having heard country lore about how having cowpox can protect a milkmaid from smallpox he carried out unethical research by inoculating a healthy child with lymph from an infected milkmaid. Eventually this method was accepted.
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Edward Jenner
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Edward Jenner bust - Tooting
{On a plaque attached to the front of the plinth:} Edward Jenner MD FRS, 1749...
Jenner statue
{On a red granite panel laid into the front of the stone plinth:} Jenner {On...
St George's Hospital - 2
St George’s Hospital was established on this site in 1733 in a country home b...
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Cecil P. Jarman
Corps Secretary in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1889-1892.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Samuel Kitching Ellison MRCS
Samuel Kitching Ellison was born in 1813 in Skipton, Yorkshire, the fifth of the eight children of James Ellison (c.1781-1851) and Arabella Ellison née Kitching (c.1781-1866). Baptismal records sho...
1 memorial
Kenneth Smedley MacLean, FRCP
Emeritus Physician at Guy's. Lived in Woldingham. His obituary by the Royal College of Physicians gives much information about the man. Kenneth Smedley MacLean was born on 22 November 1914, the e...
1 memorial
Redesign and re-opening of Memorial Park at Guy's Hospital
Re-designed in 1992. The arch was moved in 1994.
2 memorials
1 memorial
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Dr. William Hunter
William Hunter was born on 23 May 1718 at Long Calderwood, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, the seventh child of John Hunter (1673-1741) and Agnes Hunter née Paul (1691-1751). William H...
2 memorials
Murder in the Cathedral - London premiere
This verse play by TS Eliot concerning the murder of Becket, had its London premiere at The Duchess Theatre in 1936.
1 memorial
Ronnie Scott
Jazz saxophonist and nightclub owner, the club being Ronnie Scott's. Born the Mothers' Home, 396 Commercial Road, Stepney. Often lonely and depressed. Dental problems, which meant he could not play...
1 memorial
Jane Austen - SW1
SW1, Hans Place, 23
2019: MyLondon posted that the flat Jane and her brother stayed in was available to rent. "Take a look inside the stunning Knightsbridge ...
2 subjects commemorated
Fireman Colin Comber
Called to attend a fire in a restaurant in the King’s Road, Chelsea, he entered the building in breathing apparatus, along with his colleague Fireman Peter Brian O'Connell Hutchins, to locate the s...
1 memorial
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