Statue of Robert Bentley Todd outside the main entrance to the Hambledon Wing of King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill
Statue of Robert Bentley Todd outside the main entrance to the Hambledon Wing of King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill. Robert Bentley Todd (1809-1860) was an Irish physician who is best known for describing the condition postictal paralysis in his Lumleian Lectures in 1849 now known as Todd's palsy. Although Todd was gifted academically, he is remembered mainly at King's for his skills in administration and organisation. It is thanks to Todd, firstly, that King's College Hospital was established, as it was his vigorous energies and powers of persuasion that resulted in the Council of King's purchasing the leasehold of the disused workhouse in Portugal Street which was to be converted into the first King's College Hospital. After a second building phase in Lincoln 's Inn Fields on one side and Regent Street, it became necessary to move King's College Hospital south of the river into the suburbs of London from where patients now hailed. This third and final King's College Hospital officially opened in 1913 on the site where it still stands today in Denmark Hill.
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Location: King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, Greater London,SE5 9RS
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Keywords: health, history, hospital, medicine, nhs, physician, service
