The rebuilding of the hospital in the eighteenth century : part 2 / by Sir D'Arcy Power, K.B.E.
- D'Arcy Power
- Date:
- [1927]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The rebuilding of the hospital in the eighteenth century : part 2 / by Sir D'Arcy Power, K.B.E. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![rebellion, he raised and equipped at his own cost a corps of Bath Volunteers which was 100 strong. For many years he worked the Combe Down quarries, near Bath, and invented an ingenious appliance for transporting large blocks of stone to the canal. He served the office of Mayor of Bath in 1742, and in the following year moved to the magnificent mansion which he had built on the Prior Park estate, Widcombe, about four miles from the city. He was taken ill at Maidenhead whilst travelling to London, and died at Bath on June 29, 1764. As he appears in the minutes of the Hospital here re¬ corded, so he was in every relation of life—a truly good and benevolent man who used his wealth to the advantage of the greatest number. Fielding drew a portrait of him as Squire Allworthy in Tom Jones ; Pope refers to him in the Epilogue to the Satires of Horace : Let humble Allen with an awkward shame Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame. He is described as being rather above the middle height, of stout build, very grave and well-looking, extremely plain in his costume, and remarkably courteous in his behaviour. On January 2, 1765, there is a bill “ for a chimney sweeper going up twenty funnels 6/8.” Ed. Angel was engaged in painting the East Wing from February 24, 1764, till December 4, 1771, and at some time during this period there was supplied “190 yards 3 ft. of white Deal in the Theatre at 12cl £9.10.0.” There appears at this time to have been some suggestion of appointing a resident medical officer, although the pro¬ ject afterwards fell through. On Thursday, September 4, 1760, the “following extract from the Will of Richard Holland Esq. deceased, late one of the Governors of this Hospital, dated the 23rd day of February 1756 was read : “ To The Treasurer of S. Bartholomew’s Hospital to be employed in building of a new wing to the side Hospital provided such Wing shall contain in it or adjacent to it [accommodation] for one of the principal surgeons to con¬ stantly live in £1000.”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30801254_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
