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14 unusual facts about Middlesex Hospital


Alfred Webb-Johnson, 1st Baron Webb-Johnson

Webb-Johnson was consulting surgeon, Governor and Vice-President of the Middlesex Hospital in London as well as Dean of its Medical School.

Eva Luckes

Luckes began her training in September 1876 when she entered the Middlesex Hospital as a paying probationer.

George Perry-Smith

He was introduced to cooking by Eric Green, a fellow member of the FAU, during a week working in the nurses' kitchen of Middlesex Hospital.

John Charles Felix Rossi

Some time later, when Locatelli had moved on, and was occupying premises in Union Street, near the Middlesex Hospital, Rossi became his pupil.

Len Doyal

In the 1980s he became interested in ethics and law applied to medicine and at University College and The Middlesex Hospitals joint medical school he organised and jointly taught on a part-time basis on the subject.

Michael A. Epstein

Epstein was educated at St. Paul's School (London) in London, Trinity College, Cambridge and Middlesex Hospital Medical School.

Mike Gapes

Except for a spell as a VSO teacher in Swaziland in a gap year before attending university in 1972, and a few months working as an administrator at the Middlesex Hospital in 1976, he has worked entirely in full time politics either for the Labour Party or as an elected Member of Parliament.

R. A. Young

Her son, however, was educated at Westminster City School and King's College, London, graduating Bachelor of Science (BSc) in physiology with first-class honours in 1891, and then trained as a doctor at Middlesex Hospital, graduating Bachelor of Medicine (MB) in 1894 and Doctor of Medicine (MD) with gold medal in 1895.

Reginald Beddington

For many years he was chairman of the nursing committee of Middlesex Hospital.

Robert Chessher

He afterwards became house surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, but before long returned to Hinckley, on his stepfather's death, and remained there, unmarried, during the remainder of his life, resisting solicitations to return to London.

Royal Free, University College and Middlesex Medical Students RFC

The Royal Free and University College Medical School was formed in 1998 following a series of mergers between a number of existing medical schools: in 1987 the Middlesex Hospital Medical School (founded 1746) merged with University College Medical School (1825) to form the University College and Middlesex School of Medicine.

Samuel Goodenough

He married on 17 April 1770 Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Dr. James Ford, formerly physician to the Middlesex Hospital.

Tudor Thomas

He was educated at the Welsh School of Medicine in Cardiff, and the Middlesex Hospital in London.

William Overend Priestley

In 1858 he was appointed lecturer on midwifery at the Middlesex Hospital, and in 1862 he was elected professor of obstetric medicine at King's College London, and obstetric physician to King's College Hospital, in the place of Arthur Farre.