IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0198
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: Seager, Charles Dagge (1779-1844)
Date(s): c 1800
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Seager | Charles Dagge | 1779-1844 | surgeon
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Charles Dagge Seager was born in 1779. He was educated at Warminster Grammar School. He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1801, and was one of the 300 founding members. He practised for many years in Cheltenham, c 1810; he appears also to have practised or resided in Guernsey. He retired to Clifton, c 1840. He became a Fellow of the College in 1843. Seager made a careful transcript of John Hunter's Lectures on Surgery, c 1800, originally taken down and arranged into aphorisms by John Hunter's friend, Charles Brandon Trye.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Charles Dagge Seager, c 1800, comprising a manuscript transcript by Seager, of the notes taken at lectures on surgery by John Hunter, arranged into aphorisms by Charles Brandon Trye.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
By written appointment only.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No photocopying permitted.
Finding aids:
Library card catalogue.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
At one time the volume was given to Henry Bruges Buckle, surgeon at Oxford, by Charles Dagge Seager, but must have come back to the Seager family.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated by Mr H W Seager (MRCS), son of Charles Seager, in 1920.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 2008