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The Park Fever Hospital, at Hither Green, South East London, opened 1897. Its name was changed in 1957 to Hither Green Hospital. The hospital closed in 1997. Student nurses at Hither Green Hospital appear to have worked at St John's Hospital, Lewisham, as well as at Hither Green during their training.

Born 1907; educated at Highgate School, St Edmund Hall, Oxford (MA), Berlin University (DPhil 1935). Assistant Master Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada, 1929-1932, Bradfield College, 1936-1939, Marlborough College1939-1940. Joined Royal Marines, 1940, served in Mediterranean and Far East, rising to Lt Col; seconded to Army as Military Governor of Dannenberg, Germany, 1945; British Council Representative in Austria, 1946-1949, Southern India 1949-1950; Prof of Political Science and International Relations, University of Manitoba, Canada, 1950-64; member United Nations Sub-Committee for Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, 1953-62; Prof of International Relations University of Sussex, 1964-72, died 1998. Publications: The Rebirth of Austria , (OUP, London, 1953); Democracy in Western Germany (OUP, London, 1957); Poland: Bridge for the Abyss (OUP, London, 1963); Germany Revived (Gollancz, London, 1966); The Security Council: a study in Adolescence (Longman, London, 1973)

Born 1878; Scholar in Theology, Lambeth, London; Tutor to Women in the Department of Theology, King's College London, 1919-1938; part-time lecturer, King's College London, 1938-1939; died 1968.

Publications: The old testament chronologically arranged (Humphrey Milford, London, [1926]); The temple and the doctrine of holiness (A. R. Mowbray and Co, London and Oxford, 1915); Women's work for the Church (London, 1939).

Born 1905; educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 1925; Lt, 1927; transferred to Indian Army, 1927; served with Nigeria Regt, Royal West African Frontier Force, 1931-1936; Capt, 1934; 1 Punjab Regt, Indian Army, 1936; attended Staff College, Quetta, India, 1938-1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; service with 5 Bn, 1 Punjab Regt, North West Frontier, India, 1939-1940; General Staff Officer 3 (Intelligence), Headquarters, 4 Indian Div, Western Desert and Eritrea, 1940-1941; Deputy Director, Public Relations, General Headquarters, India, 1942; Chief Information Officer to Commander-in-Chief, Ceylon, 1943; retired, 1945; Chief Information Officer, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1945-1963; Editor, Geographical Magazine, 1963-1968; awarded OBE, 1964; Member, Marlborough and Ramsbury Rural District Council, 1970-1974; died 1992.

Publications: History of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Volume 5 (P Lund, Humphries & Co, London, 1950); The tiger strikes. A record of the exploits of troops from India in the theatre of war of the Middle East during 1940-1941 (Thacker's Press and Directories, Calcutta, India, 1943); The tiger kills. India's fight in the Middle East and North Africa (F Borton for G Claridge, Bombay,India, 1944).

Born in 1887; educated at Eastbourne College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned in Indian Army, 1907, and attached to 89 Royal Irish Fusiliers; appointed to 124 Baluchistan Infantry, 1908, and served in Baluchistan and China; served in Persia with Sir Percy Sykes' Mission and as Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General to the Forces, Jul 1916;recruiting duty in Kalat State, 1918; Commandant, Sarhad Levy Corps, East Persia, 1919; transferred to Indian Political Department, 1920; Assistant Political Agent, Makran, and Commandant, Makran Levy Corps, 1920-1921; Assistant Commissioner, Dera Ismail Khan and Sub-Divisional Officer, Tank, North West Frontier Province, 1922; HM Vice-Consul, Dizful, Arabistan, Persia, 1923; HM Consul and Political Agent, Muscat, Oman, Arabia, 1923-1924; Assistant Resident in Kashmir and British Joint Commissioner, Ladakh, 1925-1926; Secretary to the Agent to the Governor-General in Central India, 1929-1930; Boundary Settlement Officer in Central India, 1930-1931; Political Agent in Bundelkhand, 1931, Bhopal, 1931-1932, Loralai, 1933-1936, and Raipur, 1936-1938; died in 1982.

John Robert Hilton: born 1908; educated at Marlborough College, Corpus Christi College Oxford (MA), and Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (Diploma, ARIBA); Director of Antiquities, Cyprus, 1934-1936; architect to E.S. and A. Robinson, and in private practice, 1936-1941; Capt, Royal Engineers, 1941-1943; joined Foreign Office 1943; served in Istanbul Turkey, 1944; 2nd Secretary, Athens, Greece, 1945; 1st Secretary, Istanbul, 1956; awarded CMG 1965; Member of Council, National Schizophrenia Fellowship, 1977-81, 1983-94 (President, 1985-91); died 1994 Publications: Mind and Analysis, memoir on Louis MacNeice (as appendix to his MacNeice's autobiography, The Strings are False ), 1965; articles in Architectural Review and other journals

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