Queens Hospital Birmingham

Queen’s Hospital was founded in 1841 by surgeon William Sands Cox (1802-1875) as a resource for his medical students at the Birmingham Royal School of Medicine in Temple Row. The Queen’s was located in Bath Row and was opened with 70 beds by Earl Howe (Richard Curzon-Howe). Five years later the capacity had risen to nearly 100 following the building of additional wards and an Out Patients Department was completed in 1871. In 1900, Queen’s had 178 beds, of which a third were medical and the rest surgical.

During the First World War, Queen's became a military hospital and treated between one and two thousand casualties.

Queen’s Hospital was closed in 1938 following the opening of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Edgbaston, and three years later following an unplanned delay, it essentially reopened as Birmingham Accident Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre.