Florence Nightingale
Nurse, statistician, author. Born in Italy (go on, guess which city) while her parents were on the grand tour. Her sister was born one year earlier in Naples, and named Frances Parthenope, the Gree...
6 memorials
Nightingale Nurse Training School
In full, the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care. The world's first nursing school to be continuously connected to a fully serving hospital (St Thomas's) and me...
1 memorial
Insp.-Gen. Belgrave Ninnis, CVO, MD, FSA, RN
Chief Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1898-1911. Knight Justice in the Order of St John. Inspector-General Belgrave Ninnis was a Royal Navy surgeo...
Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Exploring, Medicine
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George Nissel
Born Transylvania, studied engineering. His sister Dorothy married Dallos and in May 1937 they all came to London. As an enemy alien was not allowed to fight in WW2 but after the war he gained Brit...
1 memorial
Normansfield Asylum
See Lost Hospitals of London for an excellent history of this hospital. Briefly: The White House, a mansion with 5 acres of grounds, was built in 1866. Dr Langdon Down and his wife Mary bought it ...
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Dr Josiah Oldfield
Lawyer, physician, and writer on health. And creator of hospitals - read on. Born Shrewsbury. At Oxford University he became a vegetarian and a friend of Gandhi. First qualified as a barrister and...
1 memorial
Old Operating Theatre
It was a conversion of part of the garret of St Thomas's Church in 1822. The odd location is explained by the fact that it abutted the female surgical ward of St Thomas's. The hospital began to mov...
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Percy Lane Oliver
Founder of the first voluntary blood donor service. Born in Fish Street, St Ives, Cornwall. In 1921, he helped found the Camberwell division of the British Red Cross Society, and conceived the idea...
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Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians
It really is spelt "ophth...", amazing. This institute doesn't seem to exist any more and we can't discover which organisation it disappeared into.
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Organ Donation Award
From Organ Donation news item: "Since 2013 the families of organ donors have been able to accept an award for their loved one, collecting it in person on their behalf at a private ceremony or havin...
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