OSLER, Sir William (1849-1919): telegram to Ramsay Wright

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1538 S59
Held at	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/guidelines-research-services/library-services/archives-and-heritage/archives/ ›
Full title	: OSLER, Sir William (1849-1919): telegram to Ramsay Wright
Date(s)	: 1917
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 item
Name of creator(s)	: Osler | Sir | William | 1849-1919 | Knight | physician

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sir William Osler was born in Canada, 1849; educated, Trinity College, Toronto, 1867; McGill University, Montreal, 1870-1872; postgraduate study in University College Hospital, St Thomas's Hospital, University College and the Brown Institute, London, 1872; studied pathology in Berlin and Vienna; returned to Canada, 1874; lectureship in the Institutes of Medicine at McGill University; attending physician at Montreal General, 1878; member of the Royal College of Physicians, 1878; fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 1883; chair of clinical medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 1884; founder member of the Association of American Physicians, 1885; physician-in-chief at the hospital and professor of medicine at the medical school, Johns Hopkins University, 1889; regius chair of medicine, Oxford, 1905; died, 1919.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Telegram from Sir William Osler to Ramsay Wright notifying him of the death of Osler's son, Edward Revere, of wounds sustained in Belgium, 1917.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Single item

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Archival Information

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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:
Jul 2008