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The '''Royal Army Medical College (RAMC)''' was located on a site south of the [[Tate Gallery]] (now known as Tate Britain) on [[Millbank]], in [[Westminster]], London, overlooking the [[River Thames]]. The college moved from the site in 1999 and the buildings are now occupied by the [[Chelsea College of Arts]]. The area around the college including the Tate, former military hospital and other adjacent areas is a conservation area.<ref name = "WCC">[http://www3.westminster.gov.uk/docstores/publications_store/Millbank%20CAA%20SPG.pdf Millbank Conservation Area] – Westminster City Council, January 2005, accessed 6 August 2012</ref> The former college buildings are now [[listed buildings|listed]].<ref>Southern Block {{NHLE|num=1066501|accessdate=7 August 2014}}<br/>Officers Mess and Commandants House {{NHLE|num=1376570|accessdate=7 August 2014}}<br>Statue{{NHLE|num=1066502|accessdate=7 August 2014}}<br>Former barracks (1) {{NHLE|num=1376572|accessdate=7 August 2014}}<br>Former barracks (2) {{NHLE|num=1376571|accessdate=7 August 2014}}</ref>

The site, including that of the Tate Gallery (which opened in 1897), was previously occupied by the [[Millbank Prison]] from 1821 to the late 19th century. The college was built by John Henry Townsend and Wilfred Ainslie in Imperial [[Baroque]] style. They also designed the adjoining Regimental Officers’Officers' [[Mess]] and Commandant's House, in [[French Renaissance]] style. The buildings were opened by [[King Edward VII]] and [[Alexandra of Denmark|Queen Alexandra]] on 15 May 1907. A statue of Sir [[James McGrigor]], the father of army medicine, originally at the [[Royal Hospital, Chelsea]] was moved to the grounds in 1907 and then moved again to the [[Royal Military Academy Sandhurst]] in 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101452265-statue-of-sir-james-robert-mcgrigor-b-g-m-d-at-royal-military-academy-sandhurst-surrey-heath-borough-council-st-michaels-ward#.Wka1l2hl8dU|title=Statue of Sir James Robert McGrigor B. G., M. D. at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst|publisher=British listed buildings|accessdateaccess-date=29 December 2017}}</ref>

[[Queen Alexandra Military Hospital]] was built to the north of the Tate Gallery and opened in 1905. [[Cooper Perry|Sir Cooper Perry]] was [[knighted]] in 1903 for helping set up the college.<ref>{{cite webODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35486 |first=H. L. |last=Eason|title=Perry, Sir (Edwin) Cooper (1856–1938)|publisher= Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year=2004|accessdatedoi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35486 |access-date= 5 August 2012}}</ref>

During the [[World War I|First World War]] the college was used to prepare vaccines, including a vaccine against [[typhoid]] which was developed at the college. The college also researched into protection against chemical warfare including the development of [[gas masks]] here. In the second World War, the college provided courses in tropical medicine. The college was seriously damaged in 1941 by bombs and the walls of the Tate Gallery nearby still show signs of the damage.<ref name ="45_Millbank">{{cite web|url=http://www.45millbank.com/history-of-45-millbank.html |title=History of 45 Millbank|publisher=|accessdateaccess-date= 6 August 2012}}</ref>

After teaching transferred to the [[Queen AlexandraRoyal Hospital Haslar]] in [[Cosham]] near [[PortsmouthGosport]] in 1999,<ref>{{cite web|urlname=https:RDMC//www.qaranc.co.uk/mdhuportsmouth.php|title=MDHU Portsmouth|publisher=Qaranc|accessdate=13 October 2018}}</ref> the college closedwas andremoved theto [[Fort Blockhouse]]. The former buildings areon Millbank were nowsubsequently occupied by the [[Chelsea College of Arts]].<ref name="History (Official)">{{cite web |url=http://www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/history.htm |title=History (Official) |work=Chelsea.arts.ac.uk |accessdateaccess-date=21 May 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070803230056/http://www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/history.htm |archivedatearchive-date=3 August 2007 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

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*Colonel [[HenryE. EdwardJ. Manning Douglas]]Risk (1926–19301911–1912)

*Major-General [[RalphDavid BignellBruce Ainsworth(microbiologist)|Sir RalphDavid Bignell AinsworthBruce]] Kt, [[CompanionKnight Commander of The Most Honourablethe Order of the Bath|CBKCB]], [[DistinguishedFellow Serviceof Orderthe Royal Society|DSOFRS]], [[OBE]] (1930–1935)<ref name="FRS">{{citeCite journal web|title last1 = AINSWORTH,b. Major-General| first1 = J. R. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1932.0017 | title = Sir RalphDavid Bruce. Bignell1855–1931 |url journal = [[Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 1 | pages = 79–85 | year = 1932 | title-link = David Bruce (microbiologist) }}</ref> (1914–1919)<ref name="ODNB">[http://www.ukwhoswhooxforddnb.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U233936|publisher=Who32132 WasS Who,R AChristophers: & C Black'Bruce, anSir imprintDavid of(1855–1931)' Bloomsbury(rev. PublishingHelen plcJ Power), 1920–2014;Oxford onlineDictionary ednof National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2014 2004; online edn, AprilOct 2014|accessdate=282008, Septemberaccessed 23 May 2014}}]</ref>

*Major-General [[Alan Reay]] (1977–1979)<ref>{{cite web|title=Lieutenant General Sir Alan Reay KBE FRCP Edin|url=http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/obituary/lieutenant-general-sir-alan-reay-kbe-frcp-edin|work=Obituaries|date=11 July 2013 |publisher=Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh|accessdateaccess-date=17 March 2014}}</ref>

*Major-General [[Patrick Crawford]] (1989–1993)<ref>{{cite news|title=Major-General Patrick Crawford: distinguished Army physician|url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article2084946.ece|accessdateaccess-date=8 February 2014|newspaper=The Times|date=8 April 2009}}</ref>