French Hospital (La Providence) Rochester, Kent
In September 1959 the first nineteen flats on Theobald Square now officially renamed La Providence in the cathedral city of Rochester were filled. The doctor's house at 105 High Street was renumbered 41 La Providence. Today the French Hospital's main duty is still to provide care "for those among us who are in distress".[7] Over the years many distinguished Huguenot settlers or their descendants have been associated with the hospital, from the soldiers Henri de Massue de Ruvigny, Earl of Galway and John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier (both of whom served as governors of the hospital), to the diplomatist John Robethon and the surgeon Paul Buissière (both also governors), to the lawyer Sir Samuel Romilly and the archaeologist Sir Austen Henry Layard.[8] The ivory carver David Le Marchand [fr] died there in 1726. Successive Earls of Radnor were governors of the hospital from the eighteenth century to 2015.[9] Huguenot Museum .
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