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Dr John Addenbrooke 1680-1719 Fellow of St Catherine's College by his will created 'a small, physical hospital in the town of Cambridge for poor people' one of the first voluntary hospitals in England. Addenbrooke's opened in Trumpington Street in 1766 and expanded on this site in the nineteen seventies as a major national teaching hospital
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Cambridge City Council
Location
Judge Business School, Old Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge

This plaque marks where John Addenbrooke opened a hospital in 1766.