William Sands Cox
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William Sands Cox was a surgeon in Birmingham, England.
William Sands Cox, drawing by Thomas Herbert Maguire
Blue plaque on House of Fraser in Temple Row
Royal charter
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A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent. Historically, they have been used to promulgate public laws, the most famous example being the English
Charter granted by King George IV in 1827, establishing King's College, Toronto, now the University of Toronto
Coloured engraving by H. D. Smith, commemorating the grant of a charter in 1829 to King's College, London
The McGill University Arts Building in Montreal, Quebec
Stauffer Library at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario