queen's college, birmingham
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
