Clippingdale, Samuel Dodd

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0114 MS0051
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	: Clippingdale, Samuel Dodd
Date(s)	: c 1915-1922
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 3 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Clippingdale | Samuel Dodd | d 1925 | surgeon

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Samuel Dodd Clippingdale received his medical education at the University of Aberdeen and at the London Hospital, where he was Surgical Scholar and House Physician. He was Surgeon to the Kensington Dispensary and Children's Hospital, and Police Surgeon for Kensington. He was elected President of the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society and Vice-President of the Section of Balneology and Climatology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He died in 1925.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Samuel Dodd Clippingdale, c 1915-1922, comprising a notebook of proofs for an article titled Heraldry and Medicine, c 1915; and two volumes of the Medical Court Roll containing manuscript lists of physicians and surgeons who attended the Sovereigns of England from William I to George V, c 1922.

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:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1928) by Victor G Plarr.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The notebook containing proofs of the article Heraldry and Medicine was presented to the College Library by Samuel Dodd Clippingdale in 1916. The article was published in The Antiquary, c 1915.

The Medical Court Roll volumes were presented to the College Library by Clippingdale in 1922.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner.
Source: Lives of the Fellows of The Royal College of Surgeons of England, Volume 1: A-MCD, p 246.

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:
Aug 2008