Queen's College, Birmingham

For the current Ecumenical Theological College, see the Queen's Foundation.

Queen's College on Paradise Street as viewed from Chamberlain Square.
The grade II listed 1904 façade of Queen's College on Paradise Street

Queen's College was a medical school in central Birmingham, England, and a predecessor college of the University of Birmingham. It was founded by surgeon William Sands Cox in 1825 as The Birmingham Medical School, a residential college for medical students. Cox's ambition was for the college to teach arts, law, engineering, architecture and general science. It was the first Birmingham institution to award degrees, through the University of London.[1]

Cox went on to found the Queen's Hospital in Bath Row (Drury & Bateman, opened 1841) as a practical resource for his medical students. The 1828 Medical School became the Birmingham Royal School of Medicine in 1836. It became the Queen's College in 1843 by royal charter.[2]

  1. ^ A History of Birmingham, Chris Upton, 1993, ISBN 0-85033-870-0
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