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Francis Gray Smart 1844 – 1912

Tunbridge Wells Homeopathic HospitalFrancis Gray Smart 1844 – 1912 (1913) BA 1867 Cambridge, MA 1870 Cambridge, MB, FSA, FLS, FRGS, was an orthodox physician, first President of the Tunbridge Wells Amateur Photographic Association, member of the Royal Meteorological Society, member of Linnean Society of London, member of the Society of Antiquaries of London, member of the British Numismatic Society, member of the Royal Societies Club, who converted to homeopathy to become a Physician at the Tunbridge Wells and West Kent Homeopathic Dispensary, and the founder of the Tunbridge Wells Homeopathic Hospital,

Francis Gray Smart purchased the freehold of the property that was to become the Tunbridge Wells Homeopathic Hospital in Church Street, Tunbridge Wells in 1902 (the Tunbridge Wells Homeopathic Hospital developed out of the Tunbridge Wells and West Kent Homeopathic Dispensary). Continue Reading »

Sue :: Oct.31.2009 :: British History :: No Comments »

George Rogers 1821 – 1894

Newgate StreetGeorge Rogers 1821? – 1894? MD 1829, MRCSL 1829, LAC 1829 was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, to become House Surgeon at the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square,

George Rogers practiced at 97 Newgate Street and at 17 Royal Hill, Greenwich, Continue Reading »

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Charles Henry Turner Bishop of Islington 1842 – 1923

Trinity College, CambridgeRt Rev Charles Henry Turner Bishop of Islington 1842 – 1923 was an Anglican bishop, Bishop of Islington from 1898 to 1923.

The Bishop of Islington was present when John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell 9th Duke of Argyll laid the Cornerstone of the Henry Tyler Wing of the London Homeopathic Hospital on 30.6.1909, alongside George Wyatt Truscott, Robert William Perks, John Pakenham Stilwell and many others.

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Sue :: Oct.30.2009 :: British History :: No Comments »

George Routledge 1812 -1888

RoutledgeGeorge Routledge 1812  -1888 was a British publisher, and the father of Sir Philip Chester Routledge,

George Routledge formed George Routledge and Co with William Henry Warne in 1851, and he formed Routledge, Warne, & Routledge with Frederick W Warne in 1858.

George Routledge married Elizabeth Warne, the sister of William Henry Warne and Frederick W Warne, and the daughter of Wiliam Warne Senior (Patron and Secretary of the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square. Wiliam Warne Senior was also on the Committee of the English Homeopathic Association, and Honorary Secretary to the London Homeopathic Medical Institution).

Routledge & Co became Routledge, Warne, & Routledge in 1858, and Routledge & Keegan Paul in 1912) – and has published many books on homeopathy over the last 150 years, and continues to do so.

George Routledge published William Cullen Bryant, Benjamin Disraeli, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Richard Monckton Milnes 1st Baron Houghton, Kenneth Robert Henderson MacKenzie, Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Greenleaf Whittier, and many others, Continue Reading »

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Katherine Maria Routledge 1866 – 1935

Katherine Maria Routledge 1866 - 1935Katherine Maria Routledge 1866 – 1935 was a British archaeologist who initiated (but did not complete) the first true survey of Easter Island.

Katherine Routledge an advocate of homeopathy, as was her first cousin Joseph Albert Jack Pease 1st Baron Gainford, and her other relatives in the Gurney family, Continue Reading »

Sue :: Oct.30.2009 :: British History :: No Comments »

Henry Whatley Tyler 1827 – 1908

Henry Whatley Tyler 1827 - 1908Henry Whatley Tyler 1827 – 1908 was a British Inspector of Railways, Railway Company director and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1892.

Henry Whatley Tyler was interested in homeopathy and contributed large sums of money for the expansion of the London Homeopathic Hospital. His daughter Margaret Lucy Tyler was a student of James Tyler Kent and became one of the most influential homeopaths of all time.

“When her father, the late Sir Henry Whatley Tyler, gave the Tyler Wing to the London Homeopathic Hospital, he told her “I have done my part: now you must do yours.” [Margaret Lucy Tyler: An Appreciation John Weir, in Homeopathy 1943]

Margaret Lucy Tyler‘s mother later consolidated this link as the ‘Sir Henry Tyler Scholarship’, a Trust Fund to send young doctors over to the USA for further training in homeopathy.

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Sue :: Oct.29.2009 :: British History :: No Comments »

John Talbot 16th Earl of Shrewsbury 1791 – 1852

Alton TowersJohn Talbot 16th Earl of Shrewsbury 1791 – 1852 was the acknowledged lay leader of English Catholicism. Shrewsbury, known as ‘Good Earl John‘ sponsored the building of Catholic Chapels across the Midlands, and was Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin‘s ‘greatest patron‘,

Shrewsbury became an advocate of homeopathy when he was in Italy (most probably in Naples with his family, where Cosmo Maria De Horatiis and Francesco Romani conducted their famous scientific clinical trials into homeopathy in 1828-9 at the Military Hospital of the Trinity),

In 1839, Lady Shrewsbury, daughter of John Talbot 16th Earl, and her new husband Philip Andrew Doria Pamphili Landi, an Italian Prince, brought Francesco Romani (Philip Andrew Doria Pamphili Landi‘s Body Physician) back to England.

Francesco Romani opened a homeopathic clinic at Alton Towers (the family seat since 1831) in 1839 (Francesco Romani, Francesco Taglianini and Rabatta were assisted by Daniells and Roch).

The 16th Earl was a close friend of Queen Adelaide, Continue Reading »

Sue :: Oct.29.2009 :: British History :: No Comments »

George Lade 1823 – 1892

Lynn RegisGeorge Lade 1823? – 1892? MD Glasgow 1850, LFPS 1850, LSA London 1856, was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, to become a physician at the London Homeopathic Hospital, and a member of The British Homeopathic Society.

George Lade was a colleague of Charles Lloyd Tuckey,

George Lade practiced at St. Mary’s Place Lynn Regis, Norfolk, and at 82, Gloucester Road, London, Continue Reading »

Sue :: Oct.28.2009 :: British History :: No Comments »

Joseph Albert Jack Pease 1st Baron Gainford 1860 – 1943

200px-1stLordGainfordJoseph Albert Jack Pease 1st Baron Gainford PC, DL, JP 1860 – 1943, known as Jack Pease before 1917, was a British businessman and Liberal politician. He was a member of Herbert Henry Asquith‘s Liberal cabinet between 1910 and 1916 and also served as Chairman of the BBC between 1922 and 1926.

Jack Pease was an advocate of homeopathy, as was his first cousin Katherine Maria Routledge, Continue Reading »

Sue :: Oct.28.2009 :: British History :: No Comments »

Henry William Dashwood 5th Baronet 1816 – 1889

Kirtlington ParkSir Henry William Dashwood 5th Baronet 1816 – 1889, a titled family with the family seat in West Wycombe and Kirtlington Park,

In 1866, Henry Dashwood was part of the of the Association for the Trial of Preventative and Curative Treatment in the Cattle Plague by the Homeopathic Method. Continue Reading »

Sue :: Oct.26.2009 :: British History :: No Comments »

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