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1876
Laying the
Foundation Stone.
In gratitude to God most good and most great who, when Alfred Duke of Edinburgh had been seriously
wounded by a fanatic during the very holidays and rejoicing with which the City of Sydney was welcoming
him, saved him for the Queen his mother and all Britons. The Colony of New South Wales, freed from the pain
and disgrace of so monstrous a crime, founded this refuge of the sick and Home of Healing in the year of our
salvation 1876, while His Excellency Sir Hurcules G.R. Robinson. G.C.M.G. was Governor of the Colony.
– Translation of the Foundation Stone, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, 1876.
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