IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 G/PP1/11
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: CLARKE family [1837-1945]
Date(s): [1863]-1898
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 photograph albums, 1 file
Name of creator(s): Clarke | Julius St Thomas | 1837-1901 | surgeon
Clarke | Astley Vavasour | 1890-1945 | physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Julius St Thomas Clarke, MS FRCS, surgeon, entered Guy's Hospital Medical School as pupil in 1860; married Hannah Vawser.
Astley Vavasour Clarke, born 7 Feb 1870, son of Julius St Thomas Clarke and Hannah nee Vawser; educated at Oakham School, Caius College, Cambridge, Guy's Hospital (entered Apr 1892) and abroad. Awarded: BA (Cantab) 1892, MD 1898, MB BCh 1895, MRCS LRCP London 1896, MA MD (Cantab) Deputy Lieutenant, County of Leicester, 1928. Held the positions of Honorary Physician, Leicester Royal Infirmary, 1896-1930, Hon Consultant Physician, Ministry of Pensions (East Midlands Div) 1920, Member Leicester and Rutland Territorial Association since 1910. Also Deputy Chairman Leicester City Health Committee; Chairman of City General Hospital; President Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1912; President Leicester Medical Society 1911; Sheriff of Rutland, 1942. Retired in 1925; Married Ethel Mary Gee of Leicester, 1899. Died 21 Feb 1945.
Publications: Lyddington, Rutland. Some points in the village history (1936). Also contributed to various medical journals
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Two decorative photograph albums of Julius St Thomas Clarke containing black and white photographs of Guy's Hospital staff [1863]; and manuscript and typescript copies of theses submitted by Astley Clarke for MB and MD degrees at Cambridge University, 1895, and 1898.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in scope and content
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature on readers' undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to 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 Records Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Detailed catalogue
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Photograph albums presented to the Wills Library, Guy's Hospital Medical School, by Astley V Clarke, 1907.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from Guy's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Sources: Who's Who 1897-1996 CD-ROM (A & C Black); British Library Public On-line catalogue. Compiled by Alison Field
Date(s) of descriptions: June 2004