ABSTRACT
Robert Rainey Pennington practised in Lamb’s Conduit Street, Bloomsbury, London for most of his life. Pennington was reported to have been a fantastic general practitioner and highly respected; his practice was arduous and grand. Behind his house in Montagu Place he had a dispensary in Keppel Street where many of his medicines were concocted. Pennington was the visiting doctor who was described as having a ‘kindly face’ by the staff at the time and dutifully tended to his patients with the extensive supply of medicine for which he was well known. Pennington founded the National Association of General Practitioners and was elected President with the eventual aim of inaugurating the College of General Practitioners, Surgery and Midwifery. Pennington was the visiting doctor who was described as having a ‘kindly face’ by the staff at the time and dutifully tended to his patients with the extensive supply of medicine for which he was well known.
