The Animal Hospital Institute, Knightsbridge

[Chris_Baker]

I'd be grateful for any information about this Institute, with particular reference to what happened to it during the Great War. A Google search and a trawl of British Newspapers Online has not revealed too much. I'm trying to determine if a man, who was just before the war its secretary, went on to see military service. Background knowledge of his employer might be helpful.

[Gareth Davies]

There is noting in Graham Winton's Theirs Not To Reason Why (which is fairly comprehensive).  I do however note that Tattersalls were in Knightsbridge from 1865 but that may have no bearing on anything.  

[IPT]

In the 1880/90s, there was an Animal's Institute at 9 Kinnerton Street, Wilton Place, Knightsbridge.

In the 1900s, there is mention of The Animals' Institute and Dogs' Hospital," Kinnerton Street. Knightsbridge

By 1913, there was The Animals Hospital and Institute, 75, Kinnerton Street, London. S.W.  Walter Betts was described as Secretary in 1914.

 

 

Edited 3 July , 2018 by IPT

[Chris_Baker]

It is Walter Betts that I am researching.

[David_Underdown]

The Kinnerton Street premsies were apparently used earlier by St George's Hospital Medical School https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E002032b.htm

 

Might be worth contacting the archivist at the Royal Veterinary College to see if they know anything http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/a/A13531674

[Chris_Baker]

Thank you. I will.