The Absent Minded Beggar and Princess Louise Hospitals
Jane Hurst

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Recounts the beginnings of Lord Mayor Treloar's Hospital

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Front Cover: "A Gentleman in Khaki" by Richard Caton Woodville

Back Cover: Princess Louise (Duchess of Argyle)

Paperback - 48 pages
Jane Hurst; 2025

Associated titles: Jane Austen & Alton , Jane Austen & Chawton, Treloar's, One Hundred Years of Education, Alton Papers 5 , Alton Papers 6 , Alton Papers 7 , Alton Papers 8 , Alton Papers 9 , Alton Papers 10 , Alton Papers 11 , Alton Papers 12 , Alton Papers 13 , Alton Papers 14 , Miss Bell's Fountains , Alton's Inns , Alton's Pubs , Alton's Motor Traders, part 1 , Alton's Motor Traders, part 2 , Hartley Mauditt House

Introduction

2025 is the 125th anniversary of an agreement between Montagu Knight of Chawton House and Ralston Balch of the Absent-Minded Beggar Relief Corps whereby the Corps secured land in Chawton on which to build a hospital.  The intention was that it would be used for soldiers returning from the Boer War.
Things did not work out as planned ... and eventually in 1908 it became the Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital.

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