Aristocracy and Homeopathy
In the British and Foreign Homeopathic Directory compiled by Frederick Hervey Foster Quin and George Atkins, there are lists of patrons of Homeopathic dispensaries and hospitals.
They read like an extract from Burke’s or Debrett’s, and include Royalty, minor Royalty, the Aristocracy, the Gentry, Members of Parliament, the Ranks of the Armed Forces, Captains of Industry, prominent businessmen and the Clergy.
The following list is a work in progress.
Queen Adelaide, wife of King William IV
Earl of Albermarle
Earl of Aldborough involved in the founding the London Homeopathic Hospital 1949.
Alexandra of Denmark
Lord Ampthill
Princess Anne
Archbishop of Dublin Vice President of the London Homeopathic Hospital
Thomas Ashburnam Earl of Ashburnam involved in the founding the London Homeopathic Hospital 1949.
Udolphus Aylmer 7th Baron Aylmer 1814-1901involved in the founding the London Homeopathic Hospital 1949, on the committee of the British Homeopathic Association
Richard Beamish involved in the founding the London Homeopathic Hospital 1949, on the committee of the British Homeopathic Association
Major Blake patron of the London Homeopathic Hospital
John Arthur Douglas Bloomfield Letter from 2nd Baron Bloomfield, Vienna, Austria, to Sir A. Buchanan, Berlin, Prussia; 20 Apr 1864. States that he is sorry to hear he had been unwell and asks if he had tried homeopathic medicine.
Moura (Maria Ignatievna Zakrevskaya Benckendorff) Budberg
Baroness Von Marenholtz Bulow Marie was passionate about homeopathy
Chevalier Bunsen, or Christian Karl Josias Bunsen 1791-1860, was a Prussian nobleman who petitioned Lord Palmerston about the Constitutional Rights of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein in 1848. Bunsen was living in England at 77 Marina, St. Leonard’s on Sea in 1854, and he was a patron of the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square in 1850:
Christian Karl Josias Bunsen was a Prussian diplomat and scholar. He studied theology at the Univ. of Göttingen. He was a friend of King Frederick William IV and urged him to accept liberal ideas. Bunsen was minister to the papal court at Rome (1824-38) and ambassador to Bern (1839-41) and to London (1842-54), but he was recalled from London because he supported alliance with the Western powers in the Crimean War. A scholar of note, Bunsen wrote on religion, language, literature, history, and law.
Sir Francis Burdett
Augusta Duchess of Cambridge Patron of the London Homeopathic Hospital
Duchess of Beaufort daughter of Charles Culling Smith Chairman of the London Homeopathic Hospital, on the committee of the British Homeopathic Association
Duke of Beaufort Vice Patron of the London Homeopathic Hospital, President of the British Homeopathic Association
Marguerite Power Farmer Gardiner, Countess of Blessington 1789 – 1849 was an Irish novelist and miscellaneous writer.
Lord Calthorpe
Princess Augusta of Hesse Cassel Duchess of Cambridge involved in the founding the London Homeopathic Hospital 1949.
Duke of Cambridge
Earl of Chester involved in the founding the London Homeopathic Hospital 1949.
Henry Scudamore Stanhope, 9th Earl of Chesterfield involved in the founding the London Homeopathic Hospital 1949.
Philip Henry Stanhope 5th Earl Stanhope was a secret agent, an amateur homeopath and a lifelong keen researcher into the occult friends of Edward Bulwer Lytton.
Sir Charles Clarke
Sir James Clarke
Countess of Crawford and Balcarres
Lord Dalling
Edward Cromwell Disbrowe involved in the founding the London Homeopathic Hospital 1949, on the committee of the British Homeopathic Association
Earl of Donoughmore
Queen Dowager 1843
Earl of Dudley
Earl of Dysart
Culling Eardley Eardley, 3rd baronet involved in the founding the London Homeopathic Hospital 1949.
Edward Prince of Wales 1841 - 1910
Lord Elgin
Viscount Elibank
Queen Elizabeth II
Lord Ernle
Arthur Algernon Capell, 6th Earl of Essex Viscount Malden 1803-1892 on the Committee of the London Homeopathic Hospital 1949, Vice President of the London Homeopathic Hospital, on the committee of the British Homeopathic Association
Marchioness of Exeter
Captain Fishbourne patron of the London Homeopathic Hospital
Lord Gainford
Prince George patron of homeopathy 1930.
Duke of Gloucester patron of the Homeopathic Trust
Lord Francis Gordon MP involved in the founding the London Homeopathic Hospital 1949, Vice President of the London Homeopathic Hospital, on the committee of the British Homeopathic Association
Lord Gray of Gray George Philip Stuart, 14th Earl of Moray, 18th Lord Gray 1816-1895 involved in the founding the London Homeopathic Hospital 1949.
Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury PC 1801 – 1893 known as Lord Robert Grosvenor from 1831 to 1857, was a British Whig politician. Robert Grosvenor helped Frederick Hervey Foster Quin get homeopathy through the 1848 Medical Bill and he was a patron of the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square in 1850.
Count Sebastien Des Guidi
Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon
Lord Headley
Lord Home
Lord Horder
Earl of Kinnaird
Earl of Kintore
Leopold I King of Belgium employed Frederick Hervey Foster Quin
Lord Leconfield
Earl of Lichfield
Chevalier Lichtenfelz
Lady Lindsay patron of the London Homeopathic Hospital
Viscount Lismore patron of the of the London Homeopathic Hospital
Viscount Maldon Vice President of the London Homeopathic Hospital
James More Molyneux 1805 - 1874 landed gentry since Henry VIII at Losely House in Surrey where his descendants still live. James More Molyneux was an enthusiastic advocate of homeopathy, and he was a friend of Marmaduke Blake Sampson, the Earl of Albemarle, Chevalier Bunsen, the Earl of Wilton, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Paul Francois Curie, Thomas Roupell Everest, William Leaf, Charles Powell Leslie, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, James Wilson and many others. James More Molyneux was Vice President and on the Board of Management of the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square in 1850.
Lord Moynihan
Duke of Northumberland
Count D’Orsay
Henry William Paget 1st Marquess of Anglesey Vice President of the London Homeopathic Hospital 1949, along with his sons Clarence, Alfred and George. Vice President of the British Homeopathic Association. Alfred Paget was on the committee of the British Homeopathic Association.
John Dean Paul involved in the founding the London Homeopathic Hospital 1949.
Helen Percy, Duchess of Northumberland Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon laid the foundation stone for the new nurses home at the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1911.
Earl of Plymouth
Lord Ponsonby
Mr Pritchard High Baliff of Southwark patron of the London Homeopathic Hospital
The Queen Mother Patron of the British Homeopathic Association
Lady Radstock
Baron Rehausen
Lord Rokeby patron of the London Homeopathic Hospital
Lord Cormo Russell patron of the London Homeopathic Hospital
Earl of Scarborough
Evelyn J Shirley MP patron of the London Homeopathic Hospital
Earl of Shrewsbury
Captain Felix V Smith patron of the London Homeopathic Hospital
Henry Somerset 1792 – 1853 7th Duke of Beaufort President of the London Homeopathic Hospital 1949.
Duke of Sutherland
Viscount Sydney Vice President of the London Homeopathic Hospital
John Townshend 1805 – 1890 Viscount Sydney 1st Earl Sydney involved in the foundation of the London Homeopathic Hospital 1949.
Duchess of Teck patron of the London Homeopathic Hospital
Mr. Truman MP patron of the London Homeopathic Hospital
Queen Victoria
Countess Waldegrave
William Watkins ?of William Watkins Ltd? patron of the London Homeopathic Hospital
Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington was an advocate and a patron of the London Homeopathic Hospital
Francis Richard Charteris 10th Earl of Wemyss
Earl of Wilton Seymour John Grey Egerton 1839 - 1898 was a patron of the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square in 1850, on the committee of the British Homeopathic Association
Marquis of Worcester Vice President of the London Homeopathic Hospital, on the committee of the British Homeopathic Association
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