The Paddington Green Children's Hospital was a hospital in Paddington Green, London, that existed from 1883 to 1987. The former building is now

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History

The hospital was founded at Bell Street by Eustace Smith and T.C. Kirby as the North West London Free Dispensary for Sick Children in 1862. It moved to Paddington Green in 1883 and was completely rebuilt and then reopened by the Duchess of Teck in 1895. A new out-patients department opened in 1911. In 1923,

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obtained a paediatric post at the hospital and was to remain there for the next 40 years. He became a celebrated

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and child analyst, member of the

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school, writer and broadcaster on the

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. Margaret Leigh (pen name Jane Gordon) worked as a nurse in the hospital in the 1930s and 1940s and her memoir ''Married to Charles'' (1950) contains much information about the operation of the hospital in that time, especially during

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. The hospital joined the

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under the same management as St Mary's Hospital in 1948. After services were transferred to St Mary's Hospital, it closed in 1987.

Notable staff

Notable staff have included: * John Davis *

Leonard Guthrie Leonard George Guthrie FRCP (7 February 1858 – 24 December 1918) was senior physician and paediatrician to the Paddington Green Children's Hospital in London and was also associated with the Hospital for Epilepsy and Paralysis in Maida Vale, ...

* Francis Dudley Hart *

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* Walter Jessop * Audrey Lees * Edith MacGregor Rome * George Alexander Sutherland *

Peter Tizard Sir John Peter Mills Tizard (1 April 1916, London – 27 October 1993, Hillingdon) was a British paediatrician and professor at the University of Oxford. Tizard was principally notable for important research into neonatology and paediatric neu ...

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1883 establishments in England 1987 disestablishments in England Defunct hospitals in London Grade II listed buildings in the City of Westminster Grade II listed hospital buildings Hospitals established in 1862 Children's hospitals in the United Kingdom Arts and Crafts architecture in England Voluntary hospitals {{London-struct-stub