Belgrave Hospital for Children explained

Belgrave Hospital for Children
Org/Group:	King's College Hospital Group
Location:	Kennington
Region:	London
Country:	United Kingdom
Healthcare:	NHS England
Map Type:	United Kingdom London Lambeth

The Belgrave Hospital for Children in Kennington, London, United Kingdom was a voluntary hospital founded in Pimlico, London in 1866.^[1] A new hospital building was constructed between 1899 and 1926 at 1 Clapham Road from a design by Charles Holden.^[2] It was designated a Grade II* listed building in 1981 and is currently residential flats.

History

The hospital was founded in 1866 and was originally sited in Gloucester Street, Pimlico.^[3] The Kennington building was designed by Charles Holden, on a site plan by H. Percy Adams,^[3] and was built in stages between 1899 and 1926.^[4] The foundation stone was laid by Princess Beatrice on 27 June 1900.^[3]

It joined the National Health Service in 1948 as part of the King's College Hospital Group.^[4] It closed in 1985 and remained disused until it was converted into residential accommodation in the 1990s.^[4]

Notable staff

• Arthur Bankart, orthopaedic surgeon best known for describing the Bankart lesion and Bankart repair for shoulder dislocation.^[5]
• Frances Ethel Barwell RRC, (1868–1963), Matron 1899– until at least 1928.^[6] Barwell trained at The London Hospital under Eva Luckes between 1894 and 1896.^[7] She was given leave of absence to serve in France, March 1915 – April 1919 as a Sister in the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military nursing Service Reserve.
• Sir Farquhar Buzzard, prominent British physician and Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford (1928–1943).^[8]
• Clinton Thomas Dent, surgeon, author and mountaineer.^[9]
• Robert Farquharson, Scottish doctor and Liberal politician, who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeenshire West.^[10]
• Alfred Morcom, medical doctor and first-class cricketer.^[11]
• Flora Murray, Scottish medical pioneer, and a member of the Women's Social and Political Union suffragettes.^[12]

Dan Leno

On 20 October 1904, the music hall star Dan Leno donated £625 to the hospital after his last show. He died 11 days later.^[13]

See also

• List of hospitals in England

Notes and References

1. Web site: King's College Archive Catalogue . https://archive.today/20130926121934/http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/kclca/collection/a-e/10be50-1 . dead . 26 September 2013 . 26 September 2013 .
2. The Removal of the Belgrave Hospital for Children to South London . . 2 . 1959 . 201–202 . 1898 . 20757962 . 10.1136/bmj.2.1959.201-b . 2434116. Free full text
3. Web site: Brixton: The Wright estate Pages 106-108 Survey of London: Volume 26, Lambeth: Southern Area. . British History Online . LCC 1966 . 17 December 2023.
4. Web site: Belgrave Hospital for Children. Lost Hospitals of London. 3 July 2018.
5. Web site: Bankart, Arthur Sydney Blundell (1879–1951). Parr's Lives of the Fellows. 4 March 2023.
6. Barwell, Frances Ethel, Register of Nurses, General Part 1928, No.16057; The General Nursing Council for England and Wales; The Nursing Registers, 1898–1968 [Available at: www.ancestry.co.uk, accessed on 28 January 2018]
7. Rogers, Sarah (2022). 'A Maker of Matrons’? A study of Eva Lückes’s influence on a generation of nurse leaders:1880–1919' (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Huddersfield, April 2022)
8. Web site: Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard. Royal College of Physicians. 4 March 2023.
9. Web site: Dent, Clinton Thomas (1850–1912) . Parr's Lives of the Fellows. 4 March 2023.
10. Web site: Robert Farquharson. Royal College of Physicians. 4 March 2023.
11. Web site: Doctor Morcom, Father and Son. 168. Dunstable and District Local History Society. 2005. 4 March 2023.
12. Web site: Remembering the Suffragettes: Flora Murray. London School of Economics. 4 March 2023.
13. Book: Anthony, Barry. The King's Jester. 2010. I. B. Taurus & Co. London. 978-1-84885-430-7. 197.