Notable Alumni
Alongside the now famed Dr. Benjamin Golding and the various Royal Patrons involved in the inception of the hospital, there have been several notable alumni of both the hospital and its medical school.
One of the early students of Charing Cross Hospital was Dr. David Livingstone, now remembered as the celebrated African explorer.
The outstanding scientist Dr. Thomas Huxley was another student at the hospital's medical school whose works include 'Zoological Evidences of Man's Place in Nature' and 'Evolution and Ethics'. Huxley was instrumental in the founding of Imperial College London although he was not associated with the merger of the two that would happen almost a century later.
Mr Astley Bloxam, an early and famed Plastic surgeon.
Asthma was extensively described by Dr. Henry Hyde Salter, a physician at this hospital
Dr. Christopher Addison, later Viscount Addison worked at the hospital. He was the son of the discoverer of eponymously named Addison's Disease and he himself is accredited with naming 'Addisons transpyloric plane' a part of the human body used as a surgical landmark. Addison later stood for parliament for the Labour Party and became leader of the House of Lords.
Sir Herbert Waterhouse was a surgeon at the hospital and Sir Gordon Holmes, famed neurologist also worked there.
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