[3] It was based initially at 29 Carey Street, near Lincoln's Inn, previously the home of the silversmith Richard Cooke.

[1] However, in the 1870s, the Devonshire Square site was wanted by the Great Eastern Railway Company to extend their London terminus, Liverpool Street Station.

Under its new governor, Sir Edmund Hay Currie, it began to charge a small subscription, and so dropped the word ‘Free’ from its title.

[1] The hospital developed specialist services, including a dedicated ward for Jewish patients, and expertise in treating tuberculosis.

In 1897 Eva Luckes, Matron of The London Hospital agreed that one of her staff, Mabel Cave RRC (1863–1953) could go there for six months to reorganise the nursing department.