Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton

The hospital was designed by Edward Banks in the classical style and built between 1846 and 1849 on land acquired from the Henry Vane, 2nd Duke of Cleveland. It was opened as the South Staffordshire Hospital but became the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire General Hospital in the second half of the 19th century. Additions included a new wing for in-patients as well as a new block for out-patients in 1872, a fever ward in 1873, a medical library in 1877, an additional two-storey in-patient wing in 1912 and the vast King Edward VII Memorial Wing in 1923. and the site was later sold on to the Homes and Communities Agency for residential development in March 2016. == Notable staff ==

• Henrietta Hannath (1864–1939) was matron of the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton from 1906 to 1923. During the First World War, Hannath was posted as matron of the 5th Northern General Hospital, Leicester, and returned to Wolverhampton in 1919. Hannath retired as Matron in the Territorial Army Nursing Service in 1923. She was a founder member of the College of Nursing, the forerunner to the Royal College of Nursing. ==Notable patients==

• Percy Thrower (1913-1988), gardener and broadcaster, died at the hospital. ==References==