Receipt for a body for dissection (Photocopy)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0114 MS0236 |
Held at | : Royal College of Surgeons of England Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums-and-archives/archives/ › |
Full title | : Receipt for a body for dissection (Photocopy) |
Date(s) | : 1814-1965 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 1 letter |
Name of creator(s) | : Belfour | Edmund | 1790-1865 | Secretary of the Royal College Surgeons of England |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Edmund Belfour was born in 1790. He became secretary to The Royal College of Surgeons of England at age 21, taking over from his father, Okey Belfour. Edmund Belfour held this post for fifty years, and died on in 1865 at his residence in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers relating to Edmund Belfour, 1814-1965, comprising a photocopy of a receipt signed by Belfour, for the body of Martin Hogan, for dissection by the Royal College of Surgeons, London, 24 Jan 1814.
Access & 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:
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented by Kenneth C McGriffie, Admiralty Registrar, in 1965.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner.
Source: Cope, Zachary, The History of The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1959.
Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions:
Sep 2008
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