Murray Levick: Champion of the disabled
George Murray Levick in his Surgeon Commander's uniform. Photo courtesy of the National Museum of the Royal Navy Not only was Murray Levick a respected Antarctic explorer and a naval surgeon with a distnguished war record. He should also be recognised for the pioneering work that he did from the 1920s onwards at the Chailey Heritage School in East Sussex, where he was its Medical Director for many years. Chailey Heritage School reception. The School's website is at http://www.chs.org.uk/ The Hermitage Craft School for Crippled Children in East Sussex had been founded by a remarkable woman. Grace Kimmins was born in Lewes, Sussex, in 1870. At the age of 24 she co-founded a charity for disabled children known as The Guild of the Poor Brave Things. Within nine years the Guild had grown into a school for children born 'crippled' (as it was termed then) as a result of poverty-related diseases and deformities. The charity...