Abstract
The Regent's Park is the home of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOph). Thomas Linacre (1460–1524) and a group of physicians petitioned King Henry VIII and were granted a charter on 23 September 1518 to found a College of Physicians. Henry VIII was the nominal founder and Linacre the first President. Until 1835, only Oxford or Cambridge doctors of medicine could become Fellows of the College. The original College was Linacre's own home near St Paul's from 1518 to 1614, the second at nearby Paternoster Row and Amen Corner (1614–72), then Warwick Lane (1672–1825), the fourth in Pall Mall East (1825–1964) and the present College from 1964 onwards in The Regent's Park. President Lord Platt was instrumental in choosing …
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