The Swedish Chamber of Commerce in London, formed in 1906, founded and maintained this hospital as part of their humanitarian war work.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Swedish War Hospital
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Swedish War Hospital
During the Great War, 1914 - 18, this building was occupied by The Swedish Wa...
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Sir William Chambers
Architect. Though born in Gothenburg, Sweden where his father was a merchant, he is considered to be Scots. Having visited China he designed the Pagoda and Roman Ruin in Kew Gardens. Somerset Hous...
2 memorials
Louis Claud Bigot
Minister Plenipotentiary for the King of France in Sweden.
1 memorial
Olof Palme
Swedish politician, statesman and Prime Minister (1969-76). Born Stockholm. 1986, late one night he and his wife were walking home from the cinema when he was shot in the back and died. No one was ...
1 memorial
Daniel Solander
Swedish botanist. Came to London in June 1760 to promote Carl Linnaeus’ taxonomy and used it to catalogue the natural history collections at the British Museum. Travelled with Joseph Banks on Capta...
1 memorial
Alfred Nobel
Chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. Invented dynamite, first demonstrating it in 1867 in a quarry in Redhill, Surrey. An inadvertently premature obituary, "The merchant of d...
1 memorial
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