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Pearce, Dr John Dalziel Wyndham


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/192

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Pearce, Dr John Dalziel Wyndham

Date(s): 1933-1994

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Pearce | John Dalziel Wyndham | 1905-1994 | clinical psychiatrist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Dr Pearce was born in Edinburgh, 1905; educated at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh; Physician-in-Charge, Department of Psychiatry, St Mary's Hospital, Paddington; the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children; and the Royal Masonic Hospital; Medical Director of the Portman Clinic and Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency; member, officer and advisor to many committees on delinquency and children's welfare, and was an examiner for the Royal Colleges in Edinburgh and elsewhere; died, 1994.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Dr John Dalziel Wyndham Pearce, 1933-1994, including published and draft papers re juvenile delinquency, and relating to RAMC psychiatry service, Second World War. Includes account of case of religious fervour in an ambulance unit, 1941.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in February 1996 by Dr Pearce's widow; file no 18, given by Mrs Pearse to the RAMC Museum (their reference no 2232), was transferred to this collection with the agreement of Mrs Pearse and the RAMC.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

In the Wellcome Library: The papers of S.H. Foulkes (PP/SHF) also include material on army psychiatry in World War II.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 2009.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Adolescence | Age groups | Age distribution
Child | Age groups | Age distribution
Child guidance | Mental health services | Health services
Health services administration | Public administration | Government
Hospitals | Health services
International agencies | Organizations
Juvenile delinquency | Delinquency | Social problems
Military medicine | Medical sciences
Psychoanalysis | Clinical psychology | Psychiatry
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Medical institutions
Psychology
Religion

Personal names
Pearce | John Dalziel Wyndham | 1905-1994 | clinical psychiatrist

Corporate names
RAMC | Royal Army Medical Corps x Royal Army Medical Corps

Places