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Michie Hospital
The Michie Hospital was a Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital set up during the First World War at 184 Queens Gate, London, England to treat wounded soldiers. The hospital was opened in 1916 by Queen Alexandra. The house was loaned by Mrs Mary Michie, who was an administrator at the hospital. She was the widow of George McCulloch George McCulloch (February 22, 1792 – April 6, 1861) was an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. George McCulloch was born in Maysville, Kentucky. Upon the death of his ... and had married, thirdly, the Scottish painter James Coutts Michie. The surgeon Lawrie Hugh McGavin worked at the hospital. It closed in June 1919. References Further reading * Information supplied by the British Red Cross Museum, London * Camilleri, Jenny (2006) ''In the Broken Hill Paddock'', Openbook Australia {{coords, 51.5000, -0.1797, display=title Hospital buildings completed in 1916 Defunct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michie Hospital Staff
Michie may refer to: People with the surname * Archibald Michie (1813–1899), Australian lawyer, journalist, Agent-General, Attorney-General of Victoria and politician * Bill Michie (1935–2017), British politician * Chris Michie (1948–2003), American musician and composer * David Michie (1928–2015), Scottish painter * Dennis Michie (1870–1898), American football coach and U.S. Army officer killed in the Spanish–American War * Donald Michie (1923–2007), British artificial intelligence researcher * James Coutts Michie (1859–1919), Scottish painter * James Michie (1927–2007), British poet and translator of Latin poetry * Jimmy Michie, English snooker player * John Lundie Michie (1882–1946), Scottish professor of Classics at the University of Queensland, Australia * John Michie (born 1956), British actor * Pat Michie, Australian psychologist and academic * Peter Smith Michie (1839–1901), American military engineer and educator * Ray Michie, Barone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voluntary Aid Detachment
The Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) was a voluntary unit of civilians providing nursing care for military personnel in the United Kingdom and various other countries in the British Empire. The most important periods of operation for these units were during World War I and World War II. Although VADs were intimately bound up in the war effort, they were not military nurses, as they were not under the control of the military, unlike the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service, and the Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. The VAD nurses worked in field hospitals, i.e., close to the battlefield, and in longer-term places of recuperation back in Britain. World War I The VAD system was founded in 1909 with the help of the British Red Cross and Order of St John. By the summer of 1914 there were over 2,500 Voluntary Aid Detachments in Britain. Of the 74,000 VAD members in 1914, two-thirds were women and girls. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war. Prior to 1914, the European great powers were divided between the Triple Entente (comprising France, Russia, and Britain) and the Triple Alliance (containing Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy). Tensions in the Balkans came to a head on 28 June 1914, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Alexandra
Alexandra of Denmark (Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia; 1 December 1844 – 20 November 1925) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 22 January 1901 to 6 May 1910 as the wife of King-Emperor Edward VII. Alexandra's family had been relatively obscure until 1852, when her father, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was chosen with the consent of the major European powers to succeed his second cousin Frederick VII as king of Denmark. At the age of sixteen Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the son and heir apparent of Queen Victoria. The couple married eighteen months later in 1863, the year in which her father became king of Denmark as Christian IX and her brother was appointed king of Greece as George I. Alexandra was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Coutts Michie
Mary Agnes Coutts Michie, (February 1857 – 29 November 1945) was founder and administrator of the World War I Michie Hospital, and an art collector and benefactor. Early life Smith was born in Nottingham in February 1857, and emigrated to Australia at the age of 12, on The Southern Belle landing in Brisbane, Queensland. She married James Magyer at Burra, South Australia and as Mary Agnes Mayger, she and her husband were employed at Mount Gipps Station, near Broken Hill. Mount Gipps was managed by George McCulloch, a founder of the Syndicate of Seven in 1883, and Director of the Broken Hill Mining Company formed in 1855. Her first husband died at Sydney in 1892 and in 1893 she married George McCulloch in London. Art collection During her marriage to George McCulloch the couple developed a significant collection of artworks. In 1894 they built a house at No. 184 Queen's Gate, London which housed these works. Following McCulloch's death in 1907, Mary married third the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George McCulloch (mine Owner)
George McCulloch (23 April 1848, in Glasgow – 12 December 1907, in London) was a British businessman and art collector who was the mastermind behind the formation of the Broken Hill Mining Company, a precursor of BHP. He was the son of James McCulloch, a contractor, and Isabella Robertson, a farmer's daughter. George's father died of cholera in January 1849 when George was one year old, and he was brought up by his mother, who was assisted by his uncle John Robertson, a farmer. Early life and shipbuilding As a young man, circa 1865, McCulloch travelled to Uruguay, South America where his older brothers, John and Allan, were stockmen. At age 21, he returned to Glasgow and, in 1869, formed a partnership with James Patterson, leasing a shipyard at Port Glasgow. McCulloch Patterson and Co., shipbuilders, built several vessels, including the ''Isabel'', ''Vale of Doon'', ''Loch Dee'', ''Vale of Nith'', ''Firth of Clyde'', ''Maitland'', and the ''Loch Urr'', though they made a smal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Coutts Michie
James Coutts Michie ARSA (19 July 1859 – 18 December 1919) was a Scottish painter who specialised in landscapes and portraits.Christopher Woods, 1995 Overview He was born James Michie at Marywell in the parish of Birse near Aboyne, Scotland, the third son of a merchant, Harry Michie, and Elizabeth Coutts, who had eleven children. He studied under Joseph Farquharson at the Trustee Academy in Edinburgh and later with Carolus-Duran in Paris. He travelled in France, Italy, Spain, Morocco, living in Tangier for several years before settling in England about 1893. Several of his paintings are in the Aberdeen Art Gallery. Amongst these is a painting of Elizabeth Crombie Duthie (1885) who in 1883 gave Duthie Park to the city of Aberdeen in memory of her uncle and brother. Coutts Michie was a member of the Aberdeen Artist's Society and the Society of Scottish Artists. Later he became an adviser to the collector George McCulloch and married his widow, Mary, in 1908. In 1910 they h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrie Hugh McGavin
Lawrie Hugh McGavin Order of the British Empire, CBE Royal College of Surgeons of England, FRCS (1868 – 31 October 1932) was a British surgeon. McGavin was the son of John McGavin of Calcutta. He was educated at Fettes College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned into the 6th Dragoon Guards, he was promoted Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines), lieutenant in July 1890, but resigned his commission in October 1892 and the following year began medical training at King's College London School of Medicine, Guy's Hospital. His first post was as assistant surgeon at the London North-Western Hospital, and he later obtained posts as a surgeon at the King George Hospital, London, King George Hospital and the Endsleigh Hospital for Officers, before being appointed consultant (medicine), consulting surgeon to the Dreadnought Hospital in Greenwich and the Hospital for Women. During the First World War he worked at the Michie Hospital and the Farnborough Court Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hospital Buildings Completed In 1916
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emergency department to treat urgent health problems ranging from fire and accident victims to a sudden illness. A district hospital typically is the major health care facility in its region, with many beds for intensive care and additional beds for patients who need long-term care. Specialized hospitals include trauma centers, rehabilitation hospitals, children's hospitals, seniors' (geriatric) hospitals, and hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs such as psychiatric treatment (see psychiatric hospital) and certain disease categories. Specialized hospitals can help reduce health care costs compared to general hospitals. Hospitals are classified as general, specialty, or government depending on the sources of income received. A teaching ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
