St Mary's Hospital, London

File:St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London. Coloured lithograph Wellcome V0013627.jpg

The original block of St Mary's Hospital in Norfolk Place was designed by Thomas Hopper in the classical style.{{cite web |first1=T. F. T. |last1=Baker |first2=Diane K |last2=Bolton |first3=Patricia E C |last3=Croot |title='Paddington: Public Services', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9, Hampstead, Paddington, ed. C R Elrington |location=London |year=1989 |pages=246–252 |via=British History Online |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol9/pp246-252 |access-date=18 November 2018 |archive-date=25 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625183532/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol9/pp246-252 |url-status=live }} It first opened its doors to patients in 1851, the last of the great voluntary hospitals to be founded.{{cite journal|pmc=1079568|title=St Mary's: the History of a London Teaching Hospital|journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine|volume=97|issue=8|pages=405–406|date=1 August 2004|last1=Ballantyne|first1=J.|doi=10.1177/014107680409700816}} Among St Mary's founders was the surgeon Isaac Baker Brown, 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 clitoris whenever he had the opportunity of doing so."{{cite book|author=Peter L. Allen|title=The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present|url=https://archive.org/details/wagesofsinsexdis00alle|url-access=registration|date=June 2000|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-01460-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/wagesofsinsexdis00alle/page/106 106]–}} It was at St Mary's Hospital that C.R. Alder Wright first synthesized diamorphine in 1874.{{cite web|url=http://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/11/26/coughs-and-headaches/|title=Heroin, prescribed for coughs and headaches, was a trademarked medicine produced by Bayer company|publisher=Vintage News|date=26 November 2017|first=Stefan|last=Andrews|access-date=20 April 2018|archive-date=25 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180425114723/http://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/11/26/coughs-and-headaches/|url-status=live}}

The Clarence Memorial Wing, designed by Sir William Emerson and built with its main frontage on Praed Street, opened in 1904.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1265525|desc=Clarence Memorial Wing of St Mary's Hospital|access-date=18 November 2018}} It was at the hospital that Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928.{{cite web|title=Fleming Museum|url=http://www.imperial.nhs.uk/aboutus/ourhospitals/museumsandarchives/index.htm|publisher=Imperial College Healthcare|access-date=24 March 2015|archive-date=3 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151103033544/http://www.imperial.nhs.uk/aboutus/ourhospitals/museumsandarchives/index.htm|url-status=dead}} Fleming's laboratory has been restored and incorporated into a museum about the discovery and his life and work.{{NoteTag|The museum is open to the public from Monday to Thursday from 10am to 1pm and can be visited by appointment outside of these times. The museum is a member of the London Museums of Health & Medicine.{{cite web |title = Medical Museums |url = http://medicalmuseums.org/ |website = medicalmuseums.org |access-date = 26 August 2016 |archive-date = 8 December 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221208010841/http://www.medicalmuseums.org/ |url-status = live }}}}

The private Lindo wing, where there have been several royal and celebrity births, opened in November 1937;{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22983365|title=10 curious things about the royal birth|publisher=BBC News|date=20 June 2013|access-date=20 June 2013|archive-date=20 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130620165609/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22983365|url-status=live}} it was financed by businessman and hospital board member Frank Charles Lindo, who made a large donation before his death in 1938.{{cite news|last=Rayner|first=Gordon|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/10195549/Royal-baby-12000-buys-Duchess-peace-of-mind-at-Lindo-Wing.html|title=Royal baby: £12,000 buys Duchess peace of mind at Lindo Wing|work=The Telegraph|date=22 July 2013|access-date=5 May 2015|archive-date=26 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926043323/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/10195549/Royal-baby-12000-buys-Duchess-peace-of-mind-at-Lindo-Wing.html|url-status=live}}

Following the 1944 publication of a report by Sir William Goodenough advocating a minimum size for teaching hospitals,{{cite web|url= http://navigator.health.org.uk/content/goodenough-committee-was-published-1944|title= The Goodenough Committee was published in 1944|publisher= Policy Navigator|access-date= 24 April 2018|archive-date= 25 April 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180425032018/http://navigator.health.org.uk/content/goodenough-committee-was-published-1944|url-status= dead}} and following the formation of the National Health Service in the 1948, several local hospitals became affiliated to St Mary's Hospital. These included Paddington General Hospital,{{cite web|url= https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/stmarysharrowroad.html|title= St Mary's Hospital (Harrow Rd)|publisher= Lost hospitals of London|access-date= 24 April 2018|archive-date= 28 July 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180728153805/http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/stmarysharrowroad.html|url-status= live}} the Samaritan Hospital for Women{{cite web |url= https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/samaritan.html |title= Samaritan Hospital for Women |publisher= Lost hospitals of London |access-date= 24 April 2018 |archive-date= 28 July 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180728154535/http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/samaritan.html |url-status= live }} and the Western Eye Hospital.{{cite web |url = https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/westerneye.html |title = Western Eye Hospital |publisher = Lost Hospitals of London |access-date = 24 April 2018 |archive-date = 28 July 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180728154148/http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/westerneye.html |url-status = live }}

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 carotid endarterectomy designed to reduce the risk of stroke.{{cite web | url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6971878.ece | location=London | work=The Times | title=Felix Eastcott, arterial surgeon | date=31 December 2009 | access-date=24 April 2018 | archive-date=25 May 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100525005634/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6971878.ece | url-status=dead }} 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 Imperial College London 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 listed buildings sold off and its services absorbed into St Mary's.{{cite web|url=https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/paddingtongreen.html|title=Paddington Green Children's Hospital|publisher=Lost Hospitals of London|access-date=7 July 2018|archive-date=28 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728150443/http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/paddingtongreen.html|url-status=live}}

Royal family

• Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster (born 1974){{spaced ndash}} son of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester
• Lady Davina Windsor (born 1977){{spaced ndash}} daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester
• Peter Phillips (born 1977){{spaced ndash}}son of the Princess Royal and Mark Phillips
• Lord Frederick Windsor (born 1979){{spaced ndash}}son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent
• Lady Rose Gilman (born 1980){{spaced ndash}} daughter of Duke and Duchess of Gloucester
• Zara Tindall (born 1981){{spaced ndash}}daughter of the Princess Royal and Mark Phillips
• Lady Gabriella Kingston (born 1981){{spaced ndash}} daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent
• William, Prince of Wales (born 1982){{spaced ndash}}first son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales
• Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (born 1983){{spaced ndash}}daughter of the King Constantine II of Greece and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
• Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (born 1984){{spaced ndash}} second son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales
• Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark (born 1986) {{spaced ndash}} son of King Constantine II of Greece and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
• Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick (born 1988){{spaced ndash}} son of George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews and Sylvana Windsor, Countess of St Andrews
• Prince George of Wales (born 2013){{spaced ndash}} first son of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales
• Princess Charlotte of Wales (born 2015){{spaced ndash}} daughter of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales
• Prince Louis of Wales (born 2018) – second son of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales

Other notable births

• Seal (born 1963) {{spaced ndash}} British musician
• Olivia Robertson (1917–2013){{spaced ndash}} author, co-founder and High Priestess of the Fellowship of Isis
• Elvis Costello (born 1954){{spaced ndash}} British musician
• Kiefer Sutherland (born 1966){{spaced ndash}} Canadian actor
• Arthur Wellesley, Marquess of Douro (born 1978){{spaced ndash}}son of the Duke and Duchess of Wellington
• Lady Charlotte Wellesley (born 1990){{spaced ndash}}daughter of the 9th Duke of Wellington
• Michael Page (born 1987){{spaced ndash}}British professional boxer and mixed martial artist{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/ufc/11949653/Bellator-144-Michael-Page-aiming-to-be-the-new-face-of-mixed-martial-arts-in-the-UK.html|title=Bellator 144: Michael Page aiming to be the new face of mixed martial arts in the UK|work=The Telegraph|date=23 October 2015|access-date=4 April 2018|archive-date=20 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180520071113/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/ufc/11949653/Bellator-144-Michael-Page-aiming-to-be-the-new-face-of-mixed-martial-arts-in-the-UK.html|url-status=live}}
• Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp (born 1994){{spaced ndash}} heir apparent to the Spencer earldom, nephew of Diana, Princess of Wales and first cousin of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex
• Admiral Schofield (born 1997){{spaced ndash}} American basketball player, currently with the Orlando Magic{{cite web |url=https://utsports.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=6752 |title=2018–19 Men's Basketball Roster: Admiral Schofield |publisher=Tennessee Volunteers |access-date=1 January 2019 |archive-date=2 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190102050840/https://utsports.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=6752 |url-status=live }}

• Arthur Cecil Alport{{spaced ndash}} physician who first identified Alport syndrome in 1927
• Roger Bannister{{spaced ndash}} first man to run a four-minute mile, professor of neurology
• Dorothy Bannon – matron 1922–1928, subsequently first Chief Matron-in-Charge of the London County Council Hospital and School Nursing Service{{Cite book |last=Cope |first=Zachariah |title=A Hundred Years of Nursing at St. Mary's Hospital , Paddington |publisher=William Heinemann Medical Books Ltd. |year=1955 |location=London |pages=118–120}}
• Aleck Bourne{{spaced ndash}}gynaecologist best known for his 1938 trial, a landmark case in abortion law
• William Broadbent{{spaced ndash}} 19th-century neurologist and cardiologist
• John Scott Burdon-Sanderson{{spaced ndash}} Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford and Royal Medal winner
• J. Jackson Clarke {{spaced ndash}} pathologist, surgeon, and cancer researcher
• Leonard Colebrook{{spaced ndash}} physician and bacteriologist, MBBS in 1906, who, in 1935, showed Prontosil was effective against haemolytic streptococcus of puerperal fever
• Zachary Cope – surgeon and medical historian{{Cite journal |date=1975 |title=Vincent Zachary cope 1881–1974, Obituary |journal=British Journal of Surgery |volume=62 |issue=8 |pages=668–669 |doi=10.1002/bjs.1800620820|pmid=1100161 }}
• Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham{{spaced ndash}} Health Minister
• Alexander Fleming{{spaced ndash}} awarded the Nobel Prize for discovery of penicillin
• Nim Hall{{spaced ndash}} England rugby captain
• John Henry{{spaced ndash}} clinical toxicologist who did crucial work on poisoning and drug overdose
• Amanda Herbert{{spaced ndash}} cytopathologist and histopathologist, editor of Cytopathology from 2008 to 2014 and co-editor of Eurocytology.eu
• Albert Neuberger{{spaced ndash}} professor of chemical pathology
• Tom Oppé{{spaced ndash}} professor of paediatrics
• Tuppy Owen-Smith{{spaced ndash}} international rugby player and cricketer
• William Stanley Peart{{spaced ndash}} professor of medicine, isolated and determined the structure of angiotensin
• Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt{{spaced ndash}}President of the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Governor-General of New Zealand
• Rodney Robert Porter{{spaced ndash}} awarded the Nobel Prize for research on the chemical structure of antibodies
• Bernard Spilsbury{{spaced ndash}} pathologist and one of the pioneers of modern forensic medicine
• Joseph Toynbee{{spaced ndash}} otologist
• Augustus Waller{{spaced ndash}} whose research led to the invention of the electrocardiogram (ECG)
• J. P. R. Williams{{spaced ndash}} international rugby player
• Almroth Wright{{spaced ndash}} advanced vaccination through the use of autogenous vaccines
• Charles Romley Alder Wright{{spaced ndash}} first person to synthesize heroin in 1874
• Wu Lien-teh{{spaced ndash}}later to be the Plague fighter of China

File:St Mary Paddington Nameplate.JPG

St Mary's Hospital is located beside London Paddington railway station, the principal station of the Great Western Railway 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.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_i5mBAAAQBAJ&q=St+Mary%27s+Hospital%2C+Paddington+locomotive+43+142&pg=PT154|title=Intercity HST 125: The Amberley Railway Archive|first=Hugh|last=Llewelyn|publisher=Amberley Publishing|year=2014|isbn=978-1445634180|access-date=21 November 2020|archive-date=23 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231123040748/https://books.google.com/books?id=_i5mBAAAQBAJ&q=St+Mary%27s+Hospital%2C+Paddington+locomotive+43+142&pg=PT154|url-status=live}}

St Mary's Hospital is one of four major trauma centres in London. The other three are: King's College Hospital in Denmark Hill, The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, and St George's Hospital in Tooting.{{cite web|url=http://www.londonambulance.nhs.uk/calling_999/emergency_trauma_care.aspx|title=London's four major trauma centres|access-date=27 June 2017|archive-date=6 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906040015/http://www.londonambulance.nhs.uk/calling_999/emergency_trauma_care.aspx|url-status=dead}}

The charity Cosmic is an independent charity, supporting the work of the neonatal and paediatric intensive care services at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington and Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Hammersmith, both part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London. The charity funds a range of specialist equipment for the units, including ventilators and patient monitoring systems for those being treated on the wards,{{Cite web|last=cosmic|title=Equipment|url=https://cosmiccharity.org.uk/equipment/|access-date=2022-01-28|website=COSMIC|language=en-GB|archive-date=28 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128095958/https://cosmiccharity.org.uk/equipment/|url-status=live}} as well as providing practical and emotional support to families.{{Cite web|last=cosmic|title=Family Support|url=https://cosmiccharity.org.uk/family-support/|access-date=2022-01-28|website=COSMIC|language=en-GB|archive-date=28 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128100559/https://cosmiccharity.org.uk/family-support/|url-status=live}}

In the British preschool animated television series Peppa Pig, Peppa's little sister Evie was born at the Lindo Wing on 20 May 2025.{{cite news|url=https://www.heart.co.uk/showbiz/peppa-pig-mummy-pig-gives-birth-baby-girl-evie/|title=Peppa Pig's Mummy Pig gives birth to baby girl and reveals special name|last=Dear|first=Alice|date=20 May 2025|work=Heart|accessdate=21 May 2025}}

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