Philip Hardwick and unveiled in 1855, erected in memory of the Arctic explorer Joseph René Bellot, who died in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue the members of John Franklin's ill-fated expedition to open a Northwest Passage in northern Canada. The first governor, Sir William Gifford, took up office in 1708. In 1774, the then Lieutenant Governor, Captain Thomas Baillie made allegations of mismanagement of the hospital's affairs, which led to a celebrated court case. A Royal Hospital School opened on the site in 1712 to provide assistance and education to the orphans of seafarers in the Royal and Merchant Navies. In 1933 it moved to Holbrook, Suffolk (where it remains today); the old school buildings were reopened the following year as the National Maritime Museum. The Greenwich Hospital buildings included an infirmary, constructed in the 1760s to a design also by James Stuart, where pensioners were attended by trained medical staff (Sir John Liddell was for a time senior medical officer). After some adaptation and rebuilding this became the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital in 1870 (taking its name from a hospital ship moored off Greenwich). The treatment for tropical diseases moved in 1919 to the Seamen's Hospital Society hospital near Euston Square, in central London, to form the Hospital for Tropical Diseases. The Dreadnought Seaman's Hospital closed in 1986, with special services for seamen and their families then provided by the Dreadnought Unit at St Thomas's Hospital in Lambeth. Greenwich Hospital closed in 1869, with the buildings being taken over by the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in 1873. Due to railway construction, the remains of thousands of sailors and officers, including many of those who had fought in the Battle of Trafalgar, were removed from the hospital site in 1875 and reinterred in East Greenwich Pleasaunce also called Pleasaunce Park (named after the former Palace of Placentia which had been on the site of the hospital). Governors Governors included: Vice-Admiral Thomas Hopsonn (1704–1708) Captain Sir William Gifford (1708–1714) Vice-Admiral Lord Aylmer (1714–1720) Admiral Sir John Jennings (1720–1743) Admiral Sir John Balchen (1743–1744) Captain Lord Archibald Hamilton (1746–1754) Admiral Isaac Townsend (1754–1765) Admiral Sir George Rodney (1765–1770) Admiral Sir Francis Holburne (1771) Admiral Sir Charles Hardy (1771–1780) Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser (1780–1796) Admiral Viscount Hood (1796–1816) Admiral Sir John Colpoys (1816–1821) Admiral Sir Richard Keats (1821–1834) Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy (1834–1839) Admiral Sir Robert Stopford (1841–1847) Admiral Sir Charles Adam (1847–1853) Admiral