History
It was founded in 1874 by Lennox Browne, Llewellyn Thomas, Alfred Hutton, George Wallis and Ernest Turner, as a specialist dispensary
In 1942 it merged with the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat, Golden Square, on the Gray’s Inn Road site, becoming at that point the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital
In 1996 it became part of the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust
It is the UK’s largest ear, nose and throat hospital
It also incorporates the UCL Ear Institute and the RNID Library
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What was reforming about it?
It was one of the new specialist hospitals which abounded in the nineteenth century, many of them in Bloomsbury
Where in Bloomsbury
In response to the demand for its services, it quickly moved to a new building at 330 Gray’s Inn Road
Website of current institution
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Books about it
Glenice Gould, ‘A History of the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, 1874–1982’, unpublished doctoral dissertation, 1995
Glenice Gould, ‘A History of the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, 1874–1982’, Journal of Laryngology & Otology, vol. 112 (1998)
Archives
Most of its records were apparently destroyed in the 1990s
What remains of the archives (which includes few nineteenth-century documents) are held at the Royal Free Hospital Archives Centre (opens in new window)
Records from 1903–1927 relating to its King Edward’s Hospital Fund applications are held in London Metropolitan Archives, ref. A/KE/246/4; details are available via Access to Archives (opens in new window)
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