page_title: Great Windmill Street
section_title: Medical school
hierarchical_section_title: Great Windmill Street / Medical school
caption_attribution_description: He of the Hunterian Museum.
context_page_description: Great Windmill Street is a thoroughfare running north–south in Soho, London. It is crossed by Shaftesbury Avenue.
  The street has had a long association with music and entertainment, most notably the Windmill Theatre, and is now home to the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum and the Trocadero shopping centre.
context_section_description: In 1767 the Scottish anatomist and physician William Hunter FRS built a large house at number 16 after demolishing an earlier large dwelling. Hunter's house incorporated a large library, a museum and an anatomical theatre. He gave lectures and anatomical demonstrations from the new house, the first taking place on 1 October 1776. After his death, in 1783 he bequeathed the school and his house to his nephew, Dr Matthew Baillie, who taught there from 1783 to 1803. The Windmill Street School of Anatomy was incorporated into King’s College London in 1829 and Charles Bell was its first professor of physiology. The house was used for medical demonstrations until 1831. It now forms part of the dressing rooms and stage of the Lyric Theatre.
caption: William Hunter plaque on what is now the side of the Lyric Theatre.
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