IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0245
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: Cooper, William White (1816-1886)
Date(s): 1838-1839
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): Cooper | William White | 1816-1886 | surgeon and oculist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
William White Cooper was born in Holt, Wiltshire, in 1816. He studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital from 1834, and became a private pupil of surgeon Edward Stanley. Cooper took notes of Sir Richard Owen's lectures on comparative anatomy given at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, in 1838-1839. Owen was impressed and awarded Cooper a prize. The notes were later published as Lectures in the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals (1843). Cooper received the MRCS in 1838, and the FRCS in 1845. He was one of the original staff of the North London Eye Institution. Subsequently he became Ophthalmic Surgeon to St Mary's Hospital Paddington. He was appointed Surgeon-Oculist in Ordinary to Queen Victoria in 1859. He died in 1886, before his imminent knighthood.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of William White Cooper, 1838-1839, comprising a volume of manuscript notes by Cooper, titled of Lectures on Comparative Anatomy by Richard Owen Esqre, FRS, Hunterian Professor etc at the Royal College of Surgeons in London delivered AD 1838. Written by Wm W. Cooper from notes taken during the delivery of the Lectures, and revised and corrected by Mr. Owen.; and a volume of manuscript notes by Cooper, titled Lectures on Comparative Anatomy delivered in the Theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons in London by Richard Owen Esqre FRS, Hunterian Professor during the months May and June, 1839. From notes taken during their delivery by Wm W. Cooper and corrected by Mr. Owen.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The volumes are arranged in chronological order.
Conditions governing access:
By written appointment only.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No photocopying permitted.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The volumes are stamped as forming part of the Owen collection of papers, but the provenance of the volumes is not recorded.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Papers of Richard Owen. (MS0025)
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Source: Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of England, Vol 1 A-MCD. (1930); and the Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 2008