IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 2127 KING, A C
Held at: Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
Title: Wilkinson, Dr David J (concerning A Charles King)
Date(s): 1934-1987
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Wilkinson | David John | fl 1972-2000 | anaesthetist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
MB, BS, London, 1972; Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 1971; Fellow of the Faculty of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1976; Consultant Anaesthetist, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London; Honorary Treasurer of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland; formerly curator of the A Charles King Collection of Historical Anaesthetic Apparatus at the Association of Anaesthetists. Publications: 'A Charles King: a unique contribution to anaesthesia', Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, lxxx (Aug 1987), pp 510-14; edited, with A Marshall Barr and Thomas B Boulton, Essays on the history of anaesthesia (Royal Society of Medicine Press, 1996).
A Charles King (1888-1965) was an engineer and instrument maker who specialised in anaesthetic apparatus from the early 1920s, a period of technical development in the specialty. Following a series of financial problems King's company was taken over by Coxeter's, which subsequently became part of the British Oxygen Company (BOC). King worked with leading anaesthetists in developing instruments and amassed a collection of equipment, which he donated to the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland in 1953 and which has subsequently been augmented by further acquisitions. The artefacts date from 1774 to the 1990s. The collection was moved from King's premises in Devonshire Street to the Royal College of Surgeons in 1965 and to the new premises of the Association of Anaesthetists at no 9 Bedford Square in 1987. For further information see editorial on King in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, xxv, no 2 (Apr 1953); 'The A Charles King Collection of early anaesthetic apparatus', Anaesthesia, vol xxv, no 4 (Oct 1970).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, 1934-1987, created and accumulated by Dr David J Wilkinson and relating to A Charles King, comprising correspondence and other papers, 1982-1987, on King, including biographical information on his education, army service with the London Rifle Brigade in World War One, and career as an anaesthetic instrument maker; earlier correspondence relating to the King Collection at the Association of Anaesthetists, 1963-1964; copies of articles on King, 1934-1987, and typescript inventory of the collection; King's bookplate, undated, and envelope of his business, 1934.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
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Conditions governing access:
Access is by appointment with the Archivist only, and in accordance with the Data Protection Act. Records are generally open unless access would contravene the Act.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies of material can be supplied, subject to copyright restrictions and suitability of the item for photocopying.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated by the author.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Related material:
The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland holds its own records and also records deposited by various anaesthetists, including further papers of David J Wilkinson (Ref: WILKINSON, D J).
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: The Medical Directory 2000; British Library OPAC; website of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland: http://www.aagbi.org
Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 2002