* * * * Lord Knutsford We record with deep
regret the sudden death on Monday of Lord Knutsford, of whose devoted work in the cause of medical charity the London Hospital stands as a proud memorial. Sydney Holland, born in 1855, was the elder of the twin sons of the first Viscount and, through his mother, inherited some of his wit and gaiety from the volatile Sydney Smith. He was educated at Rugby and Trinity Hall, was called to the Bar, and became interested in dock companies. The call to his real life-work came to him when about 1890 he visited a docker patient at the Poplar Hospital. He found the place most unsatisfactory and determined to reform it. As chairman of the Poplar Hospital he worked such wonders in a few years that he was asked to apply the same treatment to the London Hospital, then very poor and ill-found. He became chairman at the end of 1896, and devoted himself thenceforth to the reorganization and extension of the great charity. He is said to have raised £6,000,000 by his untiring efforts, and we can well believe, it. The hospital is now the largest and probably the best equipped in the country. Lord Knutsford had no sons, and is succeeded by his twin brother. * * * *
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