George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust. "Many of us...would say that the kindest man we have ever known has been a medical man..." Middlemarch. George Elliot 1818-1880. Born at Arbury, Nuneaton. Statue donated by John Letts, Sculptor 1996. Garden is a Gift from members of the George Eliot Fellowship in Britain, Europe, America and Japan. June 2000.