William Marsden
(1796-1867)

William Marsden 1796-1867 surgeon, founder of the Royal Free and Royal Marsden Hospitals lived here

65 Lincoln's Inn Fields, Camden, WC2, London, United Kingdom where they lived

William Marsden (1796-1867) was born in a house close to this site in August 1796. As a young man, he left Sheffield to study at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and was admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1827. In 1828, he founded the country's first free hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, which was base don the principle "the disease and poverty should be the only claims for admission" In 1851, following the death of his wife from cancer, he opened a cancer hospital which is now known as the Royal Marsden.

Watson's Walk, Angel Street, Sheffield, United Kingdom where they was born near (1796)