ROMANCE OF GUY'S HOSPITAL.
A very curious story is told in various books on London's history or the way in whch vie famous Gay's Hcptal came int?» oe.ng. Guy, the i.Hiai'ti, was a bookseller, wlio kept a shop at the juajvi.ii of Lombard street and Cornbc!... Here he sold Bibies printed at Oxford and various educational and theological works. He speculated shrewdly and is said to h?ve been one of the few men who bought and sold South »Sea stock at the right time. The tale goes that he was so thrifty that he dined on his shop counter with a newspaper as a tablecloth. He fell in love with his servant maid, and under the influence of the tender passion, actually ordered that the pavement in front of his shop should be repaired. While he was out the girl told the workmen j to repair a portion beyond the limit Guy had fixed, saying: "Tell him I bade you; he won't mind." But Guy\ did mind. He was wi_B. He broke off the marriage, and took to founding hospitals and almshouses. Ha died at the age of eighty, after endowing his great hospital with £200,----000.
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Northern Advocate, 23 July 1920, Page 4
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196ROMANCE OF GUY'S HOSPITAL. Northern Advocate, 23 July 1920, Page 4
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