Sir Alfred Herbert and the Coventry and Warickshire Hospital

Sir Alfred Herbert - centre, standing with his characteristic cigarette - the hospital board and senior staff in 1950 Sir Alfred had a close association with the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital from the 1890s to the 1950s and was several times the chairman of the board of the hospital. He was chairman between 1903 and 1906 and again from 1909 to 1911, and in recognition of this, he was presented with a beautifully illuminated address by Sir Edward Iliffe*, the following chairman, and signed by the board and the senior staff.  He donated £2000 towards a ward for injured soldiers after the First World War and when the hospital suffered damage in the bombing of Coventry on 15th November 1940, he donated £20,000 towards the rebuilding. To mark his 90th birthday, the staff of Alfred Herbert Ltd collected funds for the construction of a ward in his name, the Alfred Herbert ward. 

 * Sir Edward, later Lord Iliffe, succeeded Alfred Herbert as Controller of Machine Tools in 1917.