WILSON, James and WILSON, James Arthur
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0113 MS-WILSJ |
Held at | : Royal College of Physicians Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/archive-and-historical-library-collections › |
Full title | : WILSON, James and WILSON, James Arthur |
Date(s) | : 1784-1853 |
Level of description | : fonds |
Extent | : 1 file |
Name of creator(s) | : Wilson | James | 1765-1821 | surgeon
Wilson | James Arthur | 1795-1882 | physician |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
James Wilson was born, 1765; surgeon and from 1799 teacher of anatomy at the Hunterian School of Medicine in Great Windmill Street, London; father of James Arthur Wilson; died, 1821.
James Arthur Wilson was born, 1795; educated: Westminster School, 1808; Christ Church, Oxford, 1812-1815; entered his father's school in Great Windmill Street; studied at Edinburgh, 1817; MA at Oxford, 1818; MB, 1819; MD, 1823. Travelled through France and Switzerland to Italy as Physician to George John Spencer, second Earl Spencer, and his wife, 1819-1820; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 1825; practised in London and was Physician to the Lisson Grove establishment, 1829; Censor of the Royal College of Physicians, 1828 and 1851; Physician to St George's Hospital, 1829-1857; consulting physician to St George's Hospital, 1857-; left London for Dorking, 1869; died, 1882.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Record of post-mortem examinations by James Wilson and James Arthur Wilson including the post mortem examinations of the bodies of Dr Samuel Johnson and Lt Gen Sir Charles Napier, 1784-1853.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Unknown
Conditions governing access:
Open for consultation, unless otherwise indicated.
Conditions governing reproduction:
All requests should be referred to the Archivist.
Finding aids:
Available at the Royal College of Physicians.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
The account of the post-mortem examination of Dr. Johnson has been printed by G J Squibb in the London Journal of Medicine, 1849, volume 1.
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Oxford DNB.
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
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