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2 unusual facts about Mercer's Hospital


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James Gubbins Fitzgerald (1852–1926), a close friend of Charles Stewart Parnell, was a medical practitioner and an Irish nationalist politician and MP.

Robert Rowlette (c 1879–1944) was a consultant and an independent Teachta Dála (TD).


Alfred Theodore MacConkey

MacConkey, the son of a West Derby minister, studied medicine at Cambridge and Guy's Hospital.

Andrew Dent

Returning to Australia in 1995, he became a member of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine, was admitted as a Fellow of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine and became Director of Emergency at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne.

Camperdown Country Park

After the death of the 4th Earl of Camperdown in 1933, the earldom became extinct, and Camperdown was inherited by a cousin, Georgiana, widow of the 7th Earl of Buckinghamshire.

Daniel Cleary

Later that day, Cleary brought the Cup to the Janeway Children's Hospital.

Danny Mercer

While a freshman at Columbia University, Mercer began to produce and write songs in his dorm room, eventually sparking the attention of established songwriters and producers such as The Messengers and Kara DioGuardi.

Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II

His father, the then Captain Edward Otho Cresap Ord (October 18, 1818 Maryland–July 22, 1883 in Havana, Cuba and buried on July 22, 1898 in Arlington National Cemetery), married Mary Mercer Thompson (January 22, 1831 Virginia–July 15, 1894 San Antonio, Texas) on October 14, 1854.

George Lippard

The trial took place only two months after Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart," a story based on other murder trials employing the insanity defense; Mercer's defense attorney openly acknowledged the "object of ridicule" which an insanity defense had become.

Hedley Atkins

Sir Hedley John Barnard Atkins KBE (30 December 1905 – 26 November 1983) was the first professor of surgery at Guy's Hospital and President of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Henry Stallard

As Ophthalmic Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, he pioneered cobalt plaque radiotherapy for the treatment of ocular tumours, particularly in children.

Herbert Harrison Mercer

He was the son of John Noacks Mercer and Harriet Harrison Mercer, a descendant of the Baron of Whittington.

Ian Mercer

Mercer went on to work in such stage productions as Bent, Spend Spend Spend, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, Billy Liar, Stop The Children's Laughter, Welcome Home, Romeo and Juliet, The Fancy Man, The York Realist, Beauty and The Beast and Revengers Tragedy.

Joe Banner

In 2001, Banner received a "PARTNERS Leadership Award" from the University of Pennsylvania for his extensive community service, including volunteer activities reading to students in the Boston public schools and spending time with severely ill children in the Boston Children's Hospital.

John Vicars

John Vicars (1582, London-12 April 1652, Christ's Hospital, Greyfriars, London) was an English contemporary biographer, poet and polemicist of the English Civil War.

Leah LaBelle

In October 2004, LaBelle collaborated on a record album, Volume 7 of "Christmas in the Northwest" featuring singers and songwriters from the Pacific Northwest to benefit Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Centers in Seattle, Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland and Children's Miracle Network in Spokane.

Left Fraction

The Labour Party opposed this, and expelled two Fraction members, Tom Mercer and Harry Selby, for contributing to it.

Lewin's Mead

The 13th century St Bartholomew's Hospital which became Bristol Grammar School in the 16th century is situated at the bottom of Christmas Steps.

Manchester Royal Infirmary

Other teaching hospitals which are part of the same NHS trust are: St Mary's Hospital, Manchester (founded 1790), the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital (1814), and the University Dental Hospital of Manchester (1884); Royal Manchester Children's Hospital (1829).

Mark Field

He has run local campaigns on business rates, St Bartholomew's Hospital, assisting the creative industries, the control of rickshaws in the West End, social housing rent rises, the independence of the City of London Police and in July 2011 successfully argued in Parliament for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport's continuing control of the Royal Parks.

Matthew Henry Davies

They produced a family of 6 children - Arnold Mercer Davies 1876, Marion Agnes Davies 1877, Henry Gascoigne Davies 1879, Beatrice Elizabeth Davies 1880, Muriel Kate Davies 1882, and Olive Blanche Davies 1884.

Meikleour Beech Hedges

The Meikleour Beech Hedge(s) (European Beech = Fagus sylvatica), located near Meikleour, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, alongside the A93 Perth-Blairgowrie Road, was planted in the autumn of 1745 by Jean Mercer and her husband, Robert Murray Nairne on the Marquess of Lansdowne's Meikleour estate.

Mercer County, New Jersey

Mercer County's only commercial airport, and one of three in the state, is Trenton-Mercer Airport in Ewing Township, which is served by Frontier Airlines, offering nonstop service to and from points nationwide.

Michael W. Vannier

On July 19, 1983, M. Vannier (Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, St. Louis) and his co-workers J. Marsh (Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Deformities Institute, St. Louis Children's Hospital) and J. Warren (McDonnell Aircraft Company) published the first three-dimensional reconstruction of single CT slices of the human head.

Mount Saint Mary's Hospital

The system expanded in 2002 with the addition of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet Health System.

Nicholson Street, Melbourne

Just to the north lie the Royal Exhibition Building and the Melbourne Museum, both in Carlton Gardens, and St Vincent's Hospital.

Paul Thelen

At Mercer, Thelen worked on developing targeted customer marketing solutions and customer database mining programs for several companies including First Interstate Bank (acquired by Wells Fargo) and Sprint Telecommunications.

Princeton Battlefield

The park is maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry, and is located on Mercer Road (Princeton Pike), about 1.5 miles south of Princeton University and 3.8 miles north of Interstate 295/95.

Rick Mercer

Mercer's tightly scripted and performed two-minute "rants," in which he would speak directly to the camera about a current political issue, shot in a style similar to those Denis Leary used in MTV commercials, quickly became the show's signature segment.

Rick Mercer Report

Often Mercer will participate in some demonstration related to the location (e.g. driving a TTC bus while visiting the agency's bus compound), with comic results.

Robert Lewis Morgan

In results from balloting on Election Day, November 8, 2005, in the 12th district, covering portions of Monmouth and Mercer counties, Republican challenger Jennifer Beck had an edge of over 1,000 votes for one of the two seats in the district.

Sarah Solovay

"Gone" was also featured in Children's Hospital in addition to being featured on the NBC TV Show "Outlaw" in the Fall, 2010.

SEPTA Route 15

After entering Francisville, Route 15 loops partially around the south side of Girard College, but rejoins Girard Avenue again, and passes by St. Joseph's Hospital.

Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital

It is a granite faced building that is said to have been influenced by George Papworth.

St Ann's Hospital

The hospital has until recently been largely a mental health care facility; however, it now also provides outpatient services, which include MRI and ophthalmological services.

St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne

It is one of the clinical schools at the University of Melbourne (the others being based at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, the Austin Hospital, Western Hospital, the Northern Hospital, Epping, Goulburn Valley Health, Ballarat Base Hospital and Northeast Health).

Initially conceived as a branch of the Sydney institution of the same name the hospital was intended to be a charitable institution, which was hoped would help bolster Melbourne's minimal health care.

St. Luke's Hospital, Rathgar

to create cancer treatment centres of excellence in St. James's and Beaumont Hospitals.

St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street

He lists a number of important Londoners who had been buried in the church, including Sir William Cantilo, knight and Mercer (died 1462) and several Lord Mayors of London: John Olney (Mayor in 1446, died 1475), Sir John Browne (mayor in 1480; d. 1497), Sir William Browne (Mayor in 1513, died during his term of office), Sir Thomas Exmewe (Mayor in 1517, d. 1528), and Thomas Skinner (Mayor in 1596).

St. Paul's Hospital, Ethiopia

The St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College in Addis Ababa is the second largest hospital in Ethiopia.

Stakes Is High

Songwriters: K. Mercer, D. Jolicoeur, V. Mason
Sample: "Sing a Simple Song" by Jackson 5

Texas Children's Hospital

David Poplack, M.D. — Director, Texas Children's Cancer Center, Professor of Pediatrics.

Thomas Mercer

On this trip, Mrs. Mercer fell ill in The Dalles and died in the Cascade Range, leaving a bereaved husband and four small children, the eldest being not quite 14.

Thomas Pakington

Thomas Pakington was the son of Robert Pakington a London mercer and an M.P. for the City in 1534, who was murdered in London in 1537.

Trent FM

Launched on 3 July 1975 as Radio Trent and based in the converted Nottingham Women's Hospital at 29-31 Castle Gate, Nottingham, the station broadcast on FM and medium wave.

Union Meetinghouse

Mercer Union Meetinghouse, Mercer, Maine, listed on the NRHP in Somerset County

Vamsi Mootha

He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and then pursued postdoctoral training at the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research.

Warren Tredrea

Tredrea donated the proceeds of the 2004 3AW Player of the Year award to the Women's and Children's Hospital.

Wayne Wilcox

He played recurring character Marty on ten episodes of Gilmore Girls over the fourth, fifth, and seventh seasons after being discovered by Gilmore Girls co-creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino while working as a waiter at Mercer Kitchen in SoHo.

WIBW-FM

Additionally, interviews will be conducted with “ambassador families” during the telethon, telling how they benefited from the St. Jude's Hospital.

William Valentine Mayneord

He entered the field of medical physics in 1924 at St Bart's Hospital in London.

York Bluecoat School

The blue coats worn by the boys were based on the uniform of Christ's Hospital School in Greyfriars, London.


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