[3] The London Chest Hospital was founded on 13 March 1848 by a group of men, predominantly Quakers,[4] who included bankers, merchants and the physician, Thomas Bevill Peacock.

[5] By June the group, with the patronage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, had raised enough money to open a public dispensary at 6 Liverpool Street, while the hospital was being built.

[6][5] In 1849 the site of the former Bishop's Hall, the Manor House of Stepney, was purchased and in 1851 Prince Albert laid the foundation stone.

[1][14] Barts Health announced in April 2015 that 'the hospital is no longer up to the demands of rigorous specialised 21st century medicine and is now closed.

[17] Fabrice Muamba, the Congolese-born footballer who played for England's Bolton Wanderers, was taken to the London Chest Hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest on the pitch on 17 March 2012.