A short history of the rise and progress of the Manchester Royal Infirmary : from the year 1752 to 1877 / [F. Renaud].
- Renaud, Frank
- Date:
- 1898
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A short history of the rise and progress of the Manchester Royal Infirmary : from the year 1752 to 1877 / [F. Renaud]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![memorial of his enlightened benevolence; whilst a marble bust, executed by Noble, ])reserves his memory at the Convalescent Hospital. A pathetic interest attaches to the circumstances under which the munilicent gifts of Mr. Barnes and Mr. Nicholls were made to the Infirmary, each donor having lost by early death an only son, to whom some of the monies now devoted to charitable purposes might otherwise have gone towards an augmentation of their respective patrimonies. 1869 Lord Derby died, and at the solicitation of the Board, his son, and successor in the title, consented to become President. 1870 The Infirmary received £1,800 as an allotted share in a distribution of the Hospital Sunday Fund. 1871 By the death of Mr. Arthur Dumville, Mr. George Bowring became full Surgeon. A proposal was made to build St. Mary's Hospital on the Infirmary land, but abandoned. 1872 In this year, a parting of the ways first became observable, when things old and new began to jostle one another, and interfere with the. single-minded- ness with which the bye-gone generations of Trustees had carried out their appointed tasks of building up, endowing, and governing an ancient charitable foundation on which the City could dwell with a becoming pride and satisfaction. Little by little a Medical School had most properly become attached to the Infirmary, nestled unobtrusively in an](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24750311_0154.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
