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Scio House Hospital

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Scio House Hospital for Officers was a hospital catering for military officers in Putney, London.

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History

Scio House was the last villa on Portsmouth Road abutting the heath. It was built and owned by Eustratios Stephanos Ralli, a founder of the Baltic Exchange and a member of the most successful Greek émigré merchant families, the Ralli Brothers of the mid-19th century. Their firm employed more than 40,000 people. They were quick to seize new opportunities created by wars, political events, and the opening of new markets, such as corn, cotton, silk, opium and fruit. Scio House was named after the family's birthplace, the Greek city and island of Chios. Mary Ann Chadwell describes driving "with Mrs Peter Ralli's children to Putney to see the grounds of Mrs E. Ralli. Beautiful views over Wimbledon Common."[1] The mansion eventually became a hospital and was known as Scio House Hospital for Officers, Putney[2] and in 1919 a Colonel Hargreaves was residing in Scio.[3] By 1926 it was known as the British Red Cross Hospital, where serviceman injured in World War I still remained.[4] Former British governor to Singapore Sir John Fearns Nicoll died at Scio in 1981.[5] In the mid-1980s[6] the site was controversially redeveloped as Lynden Gate, a gated community of 70 neo-Georgian homes divided between two streets.[7] Opposition to the planned demolition of Scio House was raised in the House of Lords in 1982 by Lord Jenkins, but the building was ultimately torn down that year.[8] The lily-filled Scio pond remains to this day, south of the Lynden Gate development, near where the now disused portion of the old Portsmouth Road veers towards Roehampton Lane and the A3 junction.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Eustratios Stephanos (Stephanos) Ralli". Christopher Long. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  2. ^ "Voluntary Hospitals, London". UK Parliament. 25 March 1948. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  3. ^ (Firm), Sotheby's (1919). "Valuable modern books the property of Col. Hargreaves, of Scio House, Putney Heath, S.W." {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ "Gilbert Scott Cockrill, ARIBA". Gorleston History. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  5. ^ "Sir John Fearns Nicoll". Singapore Infopedia. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  6. ^ "Wimbledon and Putney Common Conservators archive, file 134" (PDF). Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  7. ^ "Welcome". Lynden Gate. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  8. ^ "Scio House, Putney". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 13 July 1982. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  9. ^ "Ponds". Wimbledon and Putney Commons. Retrieved 31 October 2017.

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