Belgrave Hospital for Children

Belgrave Hospital for Children
King's College Hospital Group
Belgrave Hospital for Children
Location within Lambeth
Geography
Location	Kennington, London, United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°28′50.71″N 0°06′47.33″W
Organisation
Care system	NHS England
History
Opened	1899; 126 years ago (1899)
Closed	1985; 40 years ago (1985)

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.[3]

History

The hospital was founded in 1866 and was originally sited in Gloucester Street, Pimlico.[4] The Kennington building was designed by Charles Holden, on a site plan by H. Percy Adams,[4] and was built in stages between 1899 and 1926.[5] The foundation stone was laid by Princess Beatrice on 27 June 1900.[4]

It joined the National Health Service in 1948 as part of the King's College Hospital Group.[5] It closed in 1985 and remained disused until it was converted into residential accommodation in the 1990s.[5]

Notable staff

• Arthur Bankart, orthopaedic surgeon best known for describing the Bankart lesion and Bankart repair for shoulder dislocation.[6]
• Frances Ethel Barwell RRC, (1868–1963), Matron 1899– until at least 1928.[7] Barwell trained at The London Hospital under Eva Luckes between 1894 and 1896.[8] 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.[8]
• Sir Farquhar Buzzard, prominent British physician and Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford (1928–1943).[9]
• Clinton Thomas Dent, surgeon, author and mountaineer.[10]
• Robert Farquharson, Scottish doctor and Liberal politician, who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeenshire West.[11]
• Alfred Morcom, medical doctor and first-class cricketer.[12]
• Flora Murray, Scottish medical pioneer, and a member of the Women's Social and Political Union suffragettes.[13]

The Belgrave Hospital for Children, front detail

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.[14]

See also

• List of hospitals in England

References

1. "King's College Archive Catalogue". Archived from the original on 26 September 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
2. "The Removal of the Belgrave Hospital for Children to South London". Br Med J. 2 (1959): 201–202. 1898. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.1959.201-b. PMC 2434116. PMID 20757962. Free full text
3. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1358241)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
4. "Brixton: The Wright estate Pages 106-108 Survey of London: Volume 26, Lambeth: Southern Area". British History Online. LCC 1966. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
5. "Belgrave Hospital for Children". Lost Hospitals of London. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
6. "Bankart, Arthur Sydney Blundell (1879–1951)". Parr's Lives of the Fellows. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
7. 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]
8. 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)
9. "Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard". Royal College of Physicians. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
10. "Dent, Clinton Thomas (1850–1912)". Parr's Lives of the Fellows. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
11. "Robert Farquharson". Royal College of Physicians. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
12. "Doctor Morcom, Father and Son" (PDF). Dunstable and District Local History Society. 2005. p. 168. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
13. "Remembering the Suffragettes: Flora Murray". London School of Economics. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
14. Anthony, Barry (2010). The King's Jester. London: I. B. Taurus & Co. p. 197. ISBN 978-1-84885-430-7.