St Marys Hospital Association

Alumni Association of St Mary’s Hospital Medical School

[St Marys Hospital Association @SMHAssociation]

The AGM of St Mary’s Hospital Association will be held at 6 pm on 1 April 2026 in the Board Room, Clarence Memorial Wing, St Mary’s Hospital, Praed Street, Paddington, London W2 1NY

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For those unable to attend Alasdair Fraser’s Memorial Service on 29;January 2026 https://t.co/GwsB2H1nAH

[Kevin Brown @KBrownHistorian]

My guest appearance on Smithsonian Sidedoor podcast, @smithsonian, A Mold with a Grudge, showing some attitude https://t.co/rw8clZuttT

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A Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Alasdair Fraser MBBS, FRCOG will be held at St James's Church, Sussex Gardens, WC2 3UD at 12.30 p.m. on Thursday 29th January 2026. All are welcome.

[Kevin Brown @KBrownHistorian]

A Mary’s Man once referred to me as perhaps the most prolific writer in the history of “St Mary’s Hospital Gazette”. Looking at the contents of just one issue (103/2) from 1997, he may well have been right! Four articles, missive from the managing editor & Mary’s news in brief…

[Kevin Brown @KBrownHistorian]

Should I be flattered at the suggestion that I should be cloned before retirement to perpetuate my knowledge of Fleming and penicillin & immortalise my presentations on the subject?

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Alasdair Fraser, consultant obstetrician & gynaecologist to St Mary’s Hospital, one of the founders & a former chairman of St Mary’s Hospital Association, died aged 95 this morning, 15 September 2025. Condolences to Elaine, their children & grandchildren

[Kevin Brown @KBrownHistorian]

The National Physical Laboratory @NPL is the latest World Origin Site with 4 firsts for NPL itself 1900, radar 1935, automatic computing engine 1946, atomic clock 1955. Good company for the birthplace of penicillin 1928, the first WOS. Innovation & science for the public good.

[Kevin Brown @KBrownHistorian]

Good to see Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum @ImperialNHS prominent on banner for World Origin Sites in Lincoln for latest designation of tank. After all we are WOS0001. Coincidentally I stayed at the White Hart @WhiteHartLN1 when lecturing on penicillin in Lincoln in 2008!

[Kevin Brown @KBrownHistorian]

Honouring the 97th anniversary of the discovery of the world’s first antibiotic by Alexander Fleming at the birthplace of penicillin, Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum, a special day to see the very special place where a revolution in medicine began @ImperialNHS

[Kevin Brown @KBrownHistorian]

“The man behind the book about the man behind the mould”

Read the book, book the author as your speaker, discover more about Alexander Fleming and the birth of penicillin.

“Exudes a quiet authority”

https://t.co/EyHXg02pXa

[Kevin Brown @KBrownHistorian]

Good feedback on Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum: “The museum is very beautiful, the volunteers are very friendly and it is a museum that everyone who is interested in medicine should go to.”

[Kevin Brown @KBrownHistorian]

Be a digital early bird & catch the presentation on Fleming & Penicillin, University of Manitoba, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, & Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg 29th Annual Bug Day, 23 October 2025, @umanitoba @SharedHealthMB.

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The dinner in honour of Michael Clarke

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There was a thank you dinner to Michael Clarke at the RSM to thank him for his long service as Treasurer of SMHA. We all owe him a lot for his years of hard, unstinting work on behalf of the Association & as a good colleague

[Kevin Brown @KBrownHistorian]

Read the book … and book the author as your speaker

Kevin Brown, “Titanic: Ship of Lost Illusions” (2025)

https://t.co/FmAmq1CteH

Or choose from his wide repertoire of talks on the history of medicine

Black tie on request, white tie if you insist or less formal as you prefer

[Kevin Brown @KBrownHistorian]

The badge of St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, redesigned in 1920 & inspired by Raphael’s Ansidei Madonna, on the hospital seal, the Mary’s Penny & plaster casts in nurses’ home & medical school library

[Kevin Brown @KBrownHistorian]

A farewell to St Mary's Hospital Medical School with a reception in its iconic library before the building is vacated and sold off

[Kevin Brown @KBrownHistorian]

My own fondest memory of the SMHMS library is of giving my 2007 Christmas lecture ‘In Search of Fleming’ to a packed Mary’s audience at culmination of campus celebrations of Imperial College centenary - exhibition, bagpipes, choir singing carols from gallery, mulled wine & me

[Kevin Brown @KBrownHistorian]

St Mary’s Hospital Medical School hasn’t legally existed since its 1988 merger with Imperial College except in the hearts of its alumni & former staff but there is something final when the buildings lie empty & have been sold off. St Mary’s Hospital still stands for now.