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The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) was established in 1729, and is the oldest voluntary hospital in Scotland. The new buildings of 1879 were claimed to be the largest voluntary hospital in the United Kingdom, and later on, the Empire. [2] The hospital moved to a new 900 bed site in 2003 in Little France.
Duncan wanted to establish a hospital in Edinburgh that would care for the mentally ill of the city and after launching an appeal in 1792 a grant of £2,000 was approved by Parliament in 1806. [2] A royal charter was granted by King George III in 1807 and the facility was then established as a public body. [ 3 ]
1455–1458: Greyfriars friary is founded 1457: The 20in (508mm) siege gun "Mons Meg" is received at the castle; Deacon of goldsmiths begins assaying and marking of works 1458: Edinburgh has one of three supreme courts in the country 1460: Trinity College Kirk and Hospital founded by Mary of Guelders
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, a teaching hospital in Sydney, New South Wales, founded in 1882, named after Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh Royal South Sydney Hospital , a general hospital in Sydney, New South Wales, founded in 1913, gaining royal patronage in 1917, and closing in 2003
The first voluntary hospital to be established in Scotland was the Edinburgh Infirmary for the Sick Poor, which was established both for charitable and teaching purposes. The project was led by Alexander Monro , supported by influential Edinburgh politician George Drummond who was keen to establish Edinburgh as a centre for medical excellence ...
Plan of City Hospital, 1902. The hospital was on a greenfield site at Colinton on the southern outskirts of the city. It was built close to the Edinburgh City (Craiglockhart) Poorhouse, (which later became Greenlea Old People's Home, [3] and was redeveloped in the 1980s as residential housing known as The Steils.) [4] The Third City Hospital, now known as the Colinton Mains Fever Hospital, was ...
It moved to 6 Grove Street, a building large enough to provide in-patient services, as the Edinburgh Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children in 1885. [1] When Jex-Blake retired and moved away in 1899, the trustees acquired her house, Bruntsfield Lodge, and fitted it out as an 18-bed women's hospital.
Andrew Duncan, the elder (17 October 1744 – 5 July 1828) FRSE FRCPE FSA (Scot) was a British physician and professor at the University of Edinburgh. [1] He was joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. As first proposer of an asylum in Edinburgh he gives his name to the Andrew Duncan Clinic which forms part of the Edinburgh City Hospital.