Edmund Blampied elected to the Royal Society of British Artists. Later that year he was asked to prepare some new illustrations for a lavish edition of Peter Pan, the rights to which had been bequeathed by J. M. Barrie to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. The "Blampied Edition of Peter and Wendy" was published in 1939 by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK and by Scribners in the US, and is one of the finest illustrated editions of this book. By the time "Peter and Wendy "was published Blampied had moved from London to Jersey with the intention of settling there.
St Christopher's Chapel, Great Ormond Street Hospital St Christopher's Chapel, Great Ormond Street Hospital St Christopher's Chapel is the chapel of Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, England. It is a grade II* listed building and is noted for its highly decorated interior. Great Ormond Street Hospital was built from 1871 to 1876, and the chapel was completed in 1875. It had been designed by Edward Middleton Barry who donated his work to the hospital in memory of one of his children who had died in infancy. The chapel cost £60,000 to build. The chapel is a small rectangle with an apse at its east end. Its