Marie Celeste was the wife of James Hora. In 1898 he gave a large annual subscription to the Samaritan Society at The London Hospital in memory of Marie Celeste, his first wife. He felt that he had not taken enough care of her whilst they were living in Australia, where she was very unhappy, and to perpetute her memory he asked for her name to be associated with the hospital in some way. The title of the Society was changed to the Marie Celeste Samaritan Society. James Hora also gave money to endow the Marie Celeste maternity wards. (Taken from The Lonodn Hospital Illustrated) I trained at The London and we always thought it was rather an odd name!