St Mary's Hospital is a

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Paddington Paddington is an area in the City of Westminster, in central London, England. A medieval parish then a metropolitan borough of the County of London, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Paddington station, designed b ...

, in the

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, London, founded in 1845. Since the UK's first

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was created in 2008, it has been operated by

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is an NHS trust based in London, England. It is one of the largest NHS trusts in England and together with Imperial College London forms an academic health science centre. The trust was formed in October 20 ...

, which also operates

Charing Cross Hospital Charing Cross Hospital is district general hospital and teaching hospital located in Hammersmith in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The present hospital was opened in 1973, although it was originally established in 1818, approxim ...

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and the

Western Eye Hospital Western Eye Hospital is an ophthalmology hospital in central London. It is managed by the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. History The hospital was founded by Henry Obre and John Woolcott, both surgeons at St John's Place in Lisson Grove ...

. Until 1988 the hospital ran

St Mary's Hospital Medical School St Mary's Hospital Medical School was the youngest of the constituent medical schools of Imperial College School of Medicine, founded in 1854 as part of the new hospital in Paddington. During its existence in the 1980s and 1990s, it was the most ...

, part of the federal

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. In 1988 it merged with

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, and then with

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in 1997 to form

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. In 2007 Imperial College became an independent institution when it withdrew from the

History

Development of the hospital

The original block of St Mary's Hospital in Norfolk Place was designed by Thomas Hopper in the

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. It first opened its doors to patients in 1851, the last of the great

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s to be founded. Among St Mary's founders was the surgeon

Isaac Baker Brown Isaac Baker Brown (1812 – 3 February 1873) was a prominent 19th-century English gynaecologist and obstetrical surgeon. He had a reputation as a specialist in the diseases of women and advocated certain surgical procedures, including clitor ...

, a controversial figure who performed numerous clitoridectomies at the London Surgical Home, his hospital for women, and who "immediately set to work to remove the

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whenever he had the opportunity of doing so." It was at St Mary's Hospital that C.R. Alder Wright first synthesized

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in 1874. The Clarence Memorial Wing, designed by Sir William Emerson and built with its main frontage on Praed Street, opened in 1904. It was at the hospital that

Alexander Fleming Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin. His discovery in 1928 of wha ...

discovered

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in 1928. Fleming's laboratory has been restored and incorporated into a museum about the discovery and his life and work. The private Lindo wing, where there have been several royal and celebrity births, opened in November 1937; it was financed by businessman and hospital board member Frank Charles Lindo, who made a large donation before his death in 1938. Following the 1944 publication of a report by Sir

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advocating a minimum size for teaching hospitals, and following the formation of the

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in the 1948, several local hospitals became affiliated to St Mary's Hospital. These included

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, the

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and the

. In the 1950s, Felix Eastcott, a consultant surgeon and deputy director of the surgical unit at St Mary's Hospital, carried out pioneering work on

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designed to reduce the risk of

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. Paddington General Hospital closed and relocated services to the Paddington basin site in November 1986 and, in common with the other London teaching hospitals who lost their independence at that time, the medical school of St Mary's Hospital merged with that of

in 1988. In 1987 as part of on-going rationalisation within the NHS, the hundred year old Paddington Green Children's Hospital was closed down, the

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s sold off and its services absorbed into St Mary's.

Notable births

Royal family *

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(born 1974) son of the

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and

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(born 1977) daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester *

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(born 1977)son of

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and

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(born 1979)son of

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and

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* Lady Rose Gilman (born 1980) daughter of

and

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(born 1981)daughter of the Princess Royal and Mark Phillips *

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(born 1981) daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent *

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(born 1982)first son of

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and

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* Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (born 1983)daughter of the

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and

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(born 1984) second son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales *

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(born 1986) son of

and

* Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick (born 1988) son of

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and

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(born 2013) first son of William, Prince of Wales, and

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(born 2015) daughter of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales *

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(born 2018) – second son of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales Other notable births *

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(born 1963) British musician *

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(born 1954) British musician *

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(born 1966) Canadian actor *

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(born 1978)son of the

and Duchess of Wellington *

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(born 1990)daughter of the 9th Duke of Wellington *

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(born 1994)

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to the Spencer earldom, nephew of Diana, Princess of Wales and first cousin of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex *

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Notable staff and alumni

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physician who first identified

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in 1927 *

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first man to run a four-minute mile, professor of neurology * Dorothy Bannon – matron 1922–1928, subsequently first Chief Matron-in-Charge of the

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Hospital and School Nursing Service *

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gynaecologist best known for his 1938 trial, a landmark case in abortion law *

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19th-century neurologist and cardiologist *

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at the

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and

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winner * J. Jackson Clarke pathologist, surgeon, and cancer researcher *

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physician and bacteriologist,

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in 1906, who, in 1935, showed

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was effective against

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* Zachary Cope – surgeon and medical historian *

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Health Minister *

awarded the

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for discovery of

* Nim Hall England rugby captain *

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clinical

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who did crucial work on

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ing and

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* Amanda Herbert cytopathologist and

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, editor of ''Cytopathology'' from 2008 to 2014 and co-editor of ''Eurocytology.eu'' *

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professor of chemical

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professor of paediatrics *

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international rugby player and cricketer * William Stanley Peart professor of medicine, isolated and determined the structure of

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President of the

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and the

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and

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awarded the

for research on the chemical structure of

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pathologist and one of the pioneers of modern

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* Augustus Waller whose research led to the invention of the electrocardiogram (ECG) *

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international rugby player *

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advanced

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through the use of autogenous vaccines *

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first person to synthesize heroin in 1874 *

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later to be the Plague fighter of China

Associations

St Mary's Hospital is located beside

London Paddington railway station Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a London railway station and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington area. The site has been the London terminus of services provided by the Great Western Ra ...

, the principal station of the

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and its successors. In celebration of the association, a British Rail Class 43 (InterCity 125) locomotive, 43142, was named ''St Mary's Hospital, Paddington'' on 4 November 1986. The locomotive is still in service but, following changes of ownership, the name has now been removed. One of the large metal nameplates was acquired by the hospital, and is now displayed in the foyer of the Cambridge Wing.

Major trauma centre

St Mary's Hospital is one of four major trauma centres in

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. The other three are:

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Cosmic Charity

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Special events commemorate ten years of the Faculty of Medicine

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Cosmic Charity

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