IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 TH/PP58
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: SMITH, Robert Percy (1853-1941)
Date(s): 1864-[1869]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume, 1 file, 1 medal
Name of creator(s): Smith | Robert Percy | 1853-1941 | physician and psychiatrist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Robert Percy Smith entered St Thomas's Hospital in 1874. He graduated MD MB (University Scholar and Gold Medal winner, with Honours in Medicine and Obstetric Medicine), BS and FRCP. He was onsultant Physician for Psychological Disorders at St Thomas's Hospital [1905-1919], and Visiting Physician at Otto House, Fenstanton and Clarence Lodge Asylum.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of R P Smith comprising artworks including a sketch book containing pencil sketches and watercolours, (some incomplete) including images of the pleasure boat of the Rajah of Jehore; humorous cartoon; Knockholt House, Knockholt, Kent; Hobson's Bay, Victoria; Sir Walter Scott's Memorial, Edinburgh; Stirling Castle; Rumbling Bridge, Dunkeld; Loch Lomond; hand-coloured maps of the Western Hemisphere signed Percy Smith, Enfield, 1865; and Denmark, signed by Robert Percy Smith, Jun 1864;
loose watercolours depicting a woman in peasant costume; cottage and pond in winter, ship on the rocks, [1869];
Royal Medico-Psychological Association Presidential Medal, 1904-1905. `
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in the Scope and Content
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive and Corporate Record Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Detailed catalogue
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Acquired by St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from St Thomas' Hospital Medical School Library in 2002
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Sources: St Thomas's Hospital Old Students Directory, 1938; St Thomas's Hospital, E M McInnes, London, 1990.
Date(s) of descriptions: Compiled by Alison Field, January 2004