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George Grey Turner Autograph Collection


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.5421-5422

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: George Grey Turner Autograph Collection

Date(s): 1647-1924

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 114 items

Name of creator(s): Turner | George Grey | 1877-1951 | surgeon x Grey Turner | George

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1877; Graduated MB. BS. University of Durham, 1898; Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne; Postgraduate study at Vienna; MS, 1901; FRCS, 1903; Elected to staff of Royal Infirmary, 1906; Service with R.A.M.C. at home and overseas - for a time as consulting surgeon in Mesopotamia; 1914-1918; Council of Royal College of Surgeons, 1926-1950; Professor Surgery in University of Durham, 1927; President of the Association of Surgeons of GB and Ireland Hunterian Professor, 1928; Orator, Medical Society of London, 1929; President Medical Society of London, 1934; Professor of Surgery in new British Postgraduate Medical School, 1935; Vice President, Royal College of Surgeons, 1937-1939; President, Medical Society of London, 1943-1944; died, 1951.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Autograph letters and documents collected by George Grey Turner, 1647-1924. Details of the writers included can be found in the descriptions of the individual manuscripts.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English, some French and German.

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Acquired in two batches. MS.5421 comprises material acquired with the papers of George Grey Turner, c. 1953. (acc.347626). MS.5422 comprises material deposited by Mrs Grey Turner, 1986 (acc.347627).

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

In the Wellcome Library: Further material from the George Grey Turner autograph collection can be found as MS.5423 (letters to Ernest Abraham Hart, 1835-1898, medical journalist). The papers of Sir George Grey Turner himself are held as PP/GGT; letters by him are found at MS.7780/13-15 and in the papers of Charles Firmin Cuthbert (MSS.1982-1997). An inventory of Turner's personalia is found in the Wellcome Archives at WA/HMM/CM/Col/99. In other repositories: Negatives of a 16mm film 'Construction of a new oesophagus' [1933] were handed over to the British Medical Association Film Library.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Scientists | Scientific personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Artists
Science

Personal names
Brunton | Sir | Thomas Lauder | 1844-1916 | first baronet | physician and pharmacologist
Cooper | Sir | Astley Paston | 1768-1841 | 1st Baronet | surgeon
Guthrie | George James | 1785-1856 | surgeon
Halford | Sir | Henry | 1766-1844 | Baronet | royal physician
Huxley | Thomas Henry | 1825-1895 | scientist and educationist
Landseer | Sir | Edwin Henry | 1802-1873 | Knight | painter
Lister | Joseph | 1827-1912 | 1st Baron Lister | surgeon x Lister | 1st Baron
Liston | Robert | 1794-1847 | professor of clinical surgery
Millais | Sir | John Everett | 1829-1896 | Knight | painter
Nightingale | Florence | 1820-1910 | reformer of hospital nursing
Owen | Sir | Richard | 1804-1892 | Knight | comparative anatomist and palaeontologist
Paget | Sir | James | 1814-1899 | 1st Baronet | surgeon
Ruskin | John | 1819-1900 | author, artist and social reformer
Thompson | Sir | Henry | 1820-1904 | Knight | surgeon
Turner | George Grey | 1877-1951 | surgeon x Grey Turner | George
Virchow | Rudolf | 1821-1902 | pathologist
Watson | Sir | Thomas | 1792-1882 | Knight | physician

Corporate names

Places