St Thomas's Hospital

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death	Angela Thirkell	During the summer of 1960, AT was taken to St Thomas's Hospital in southeast London, suffering from aplastic anaemia. She was transferred to Hyde-Stile , a convalescent home near Godalming, and finally to Bramley, in Surrey.
death	Edith Sitwell	ES died at St Thomas's Hospital in London, of a cerebral haemorrhage. Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981. 356
Education	Kathleen Caffyn	Kathleen Hunt (later KC ) studied with the National and Metropolitan Nursing Association at St Thomas's Hospital in London. Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897–2024, Many volumes. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Family and Intimate relationships	Marie Belloc Lowndes	Their son, Charles (her eldest living child), Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan, 1946. 34 was born on 2 January 1898. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan, 1946. 36 In August 1914, in the week before war was declared, he was mysteriously ill in hospital, with severe pains...
Occupation	Lucy Boston	Lucy Wood (later LB ) left Oxford University to serve as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, first at St Thomas's Hospital , London, then at Addenbrookes Hospital , Cambridge, and then a military...
Occupation	Naomi Mitchison	Naomi Haldane (later NM ) worked briefly at St Thomas's Hospital in London as a VAD (volunteer auxiliary nurse), which would have been a wage-earning job in peace-time. Mitchison, Naomi. All Change Here: Girlhood and Marriage. Bodley Head, 1975. 124, 129 Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora, 1992. 26-7
Other Life Event	Florence Nightingale	The Nightingale School and Home for Nurses opened at St Thomas's Hospital in London with fifteen students. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. Nightingale, Florence. Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale. Editors Vicinus, Martha and Bea Nergaard, Harvard University Press, 1990. 206, 441
Other Life Event	Florence Nightingale	By the early twenty-first century the immediate area of St Thomas's Hospital featured a Florence Nightingale Museum and a pub named after her.
Reception	Mary Seacole	The Times demanded in November 1856 when MS 's financial straits became known: While the benevolent deeds of Florence Nightingale are being handed down to posterity . . . are the humbler actions of Mrs...

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1173

St Thomas's Hospital in London was dedicated; it may have originated in the infirmary of the Priory of St Mary Overy in Southwark.

Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.

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1726

Guy's Hospital was opened as a voluntary hospital alongside St Thomas's Hospital ; the two United Hospitals of the Borough [of Southwark] jointly undertook medical teaching.

Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.

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