Famous Givers and Their GiftsBolton, Sarah Knowles
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Famous Givers and Their Gifts
Bolton, Sarah Knowles
Philanthropists
On March 26, 1890, a college built of red brick was formally opened by
Mr. Gladstone. It cost £21,000, and is for the resident staff and
students. A gymnasium was built also in 1890.
Guy's Hospital has been fortunate in the noted men who have been
connected with it. One of its early surgeons, John Belchier, lies buried
in the same vault with Thomas Guy. He fell in his office; and his
servant, not being able to lift him, as he was a heavy man, offered to
go for assistance. "No, John, I am dying," he said. "Fetch me a pillow;
I may as well die here as anywhere else." It is related of him that,
seeing the vanity of all earthly riches, he desired to be buried in the
hospital, with iron nails in his coffin, which was to be filled with
sawdust.
The learned Dr. Walter Moxon, who has been called from his combination
of tenderness and ability "the perfect physician," was associated with
Guy's Hospital for twenty years. Dr. Wilks says, in the garden of Dr.
Moxon, "In the winter lumps of suet and cocoanut sawn in rings were hung
upon the arches and boughs for the benefit of the tits, and loaves of
bread were broken up for the blackbirds, thrushes, finches, and
sparrows. Always before taking his own breakfast on a winter's morning,
Moxon first saw to the feeding of his feathered friends."
Dr. Richard Bright, whose name is given to the disease which he so
carefully studied, was for years connected with Guy's Hospital. He wrote
valuable books, and was an untiring student. "He was sincerely
religious, both in doctrine and in practice, and of so pure a mind that
he never was heard to utter a sentiment or to relate an anecdote that
was not fit to be heard by the merest child or the most refined woman."
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