We have, stored in the hospital archives several portraits of gentlemen of Cambridge and surrounding areas who had at one time some influence at Addenbrooke’s. The portraits were hung in the Boardroom of the old hospital and for many years in the corridor of level 3 at the new site. This is Alderman John Newling …
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Alexander Scott Abbott
This is another of the portraits we have stored in the Hospital Archives - Alexander Scott Abbott, who was Surgeon at Addenbrooke’s from 1817–1843. Abbott was born in about 1790 the second son of William a surgeon in Needham Market, Suffolk. He was most properly apprenticed to his father before going to St Bartholomew’s Hospital, …
Frederic Thackeray
This portrait is by far the largest in the collection, nearly double the size of any of the others and portrays Frederic Thackeray (1774-1852) who was Surgeon and Physician to Addenbrooke’s, he succeed his father, Thomas, (who had been one of the first surgeons to Addenbrooke's) as surgeon in October 1796. He resigned as surgeon …
The Long Picture
I am sure many of you, while walking the corridors of Addenbrooke’s, have noticed the very long series of water-colour sketches leading to the x-ray department. It has an unusual history. The Honorary Archivist while still working at the hospital as the Administrator of the Hospital remembers Mr Ernest van Someren coming to see him …
