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The Liverpool Royal Infirmary was a hospital in Pembroke Place in
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. The building is now used by the
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History

The infirmary has its origins in a small building on Shaw's Brow which was opened by the 11th Earl of Derby on part of the site which is now occupied by St George's Hall on 25 March 1749. The second incarnation of the infirmary was designed by John Foster in the Greek Revival style and opened on Brownlow Hill in September 1824. This building was renamed the Liverpool Royal Infirmary after a visit of
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to Liverpool in 1851.
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, based on advice from
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, set up the world's first ever district nursing service at this building in 1862. This led to the formation of the Queen's Nursing Institute. The foundation stone for a third incarnation of the infirmary, a much larger building, was laid by the 15th Earl of Derby in Pembroke Place on 28 October 1887. The new building, this time designed by
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in the Romanesque Revival style, opened in November 1889. The foundation stone for a new out-patient building, which incorporated a large hall which could accommodate up to 200 people, was laid by the 17th Earl of Derby on 7 July 1909. This building was designed by James Doyle and was opened by the 6th Earl of Sefton on 29 March 1911. The infirmary joined the
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in 1948. After services transferred to the new
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on Prescot Street, the old building (subsequently referred to as the "Waterhouse Building") closed in 1978. The Waterhouse Building was acquired by the
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in 1995 and departments that now use it include the Institute of Psychology, Health and Society. It was used by the
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'' in 2006.


Notable Staff

Notable people who have trained and worked at Liverpool Royal Infirmary include: *
Rosalind Paget Dame Mary Rosalind Paget, DBE, ARRC (4 January 1855 – 19 August 1948), was a noted British nurse, midwife and reformer. She was the first superintendent, later inspector general, of the Queen's Jubilee Institute for District Nursing, which wa ...
(1855-1948), was a niece of
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, a resident of Liverpool and social reformer. Paget was a British Nurse and reformer who co-founded the forerunner to the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and in the late 1870s did some experience of training at Liverpool Royal Infirmary.Paget, Rosalind, Roll of Queen’s Nurses, 1891–1931; Roll No.3919, Vol.1 (1891–1892), 1; Queen's Nursing Institute Registers; Wellcome Library, London vailable at: www.ancestry.co.uk, accessed on 11 December 2020/ref> Between 1882-1884 she formally trained as a nurse at
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under Matron
Eva Luckes Eva Charlotte Ellis Luckes (8 July 1854 – 16 February 1919) was Matron of The London Hospital from 1880 to 1919. Early life Eva Abigail Charlotte Ellis Luckes (she herself spelled her name Lückes with the umlaut) was born in Exeter, Devo ...
. Paget was the first Inspector for the
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, which her uncle was instrumental in establishing. *Emily 'Margaret' Cummins (1866- ), Lady Superintendent and Matron (1911- until at least 1924) She also trained at The London Hospital under Matron Eva Luckes. In 1924 Margaret Cummins helped arrange what was said to be the first Nurses Service in England. It was held in the Lady Chapel of the
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on Sunday, 18 May shortly after the anniversary of the birth of
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.


Gallery

File:Second Liverpool Royal Infirmary (14652158422).jpg, The second incarnation of the infirmary File:Block C, Waterhouse building.jpg, Former ward block at the third incarnation of the infirmary File:Hospitals and Asylums of the World - Portfolio of Plans, p. 26.jpg, Ground Floor plan of the third incarnation of the infirmary File:Hospitals and Asylums of the World - Portfolio of Plans, p. 27.jpg, First Floor plan of the third incarnation of the infirmary


References


External links


E. Chambré Hardman Archive

Aerial Photograph
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