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Collections information
Businesses (1)
- Charles Bayley, chemist Edinburgh, Midlothian
Organisations (12)
- British Journal of Surgery Society
- Cardiothoracic Society
- Deptford Hospital Deptford, Kent
- Hunterian Museum London
- London Lock Hospital London
- London Society of Thoracic Surgeons London
- Royal College of Surgeons of England London
- Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
- St George's Hospital Medical School, London London
- Surgical Club
- West London Medico-Chirurgical Society London
- Western Friendly Medical Club, social club
Persons (120)
- Abernethy, John, (1764-1831), surgeon
- Alston, Charles, (1683-1760), physician and botanist
- Argyle, Edward Percy, (1875-1935), Lieutenant Colonel Royal Army Veterinary Corps
- Baillie, Joanna, (1762-1851), playwright and poet
- Baillie, Matthew, (1761-1823), Physician and Anatomist
- Barker, Herbert Atkinson, (1869-1950), Knight, manipulative surgeon
- Bate, Charles Spence, (1819-1889), Scientific Writer
- Bennett, George, (1804-1893), naturalist and physician
- Berry, Sir James, (1860-1946), Knight, surgeon
- Berry, Mary, (1763-1852), author and friend of Horace Walpole
- Bird, Golding, (1814-1854), physician
- Bird, Henry, (1811-1892), surgeon
- Blagden, Richard, (1789-1861), Surgeon
- Blane, Sir Gilbert, (1749-1834), 1st Baronet Physician of the Fleet
- Bowes, Christopher, (fl 1792), surgeon
- Bowlby, Sir Anthony Alfred, (1855-1929), Knight Surgeon
- Brock, Russell Claude, (1903-1980), Baron Brock, surgeon
- Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins, (1783-1862), 1st Baronet, surgeon
- Browne, Sir George Buckston, (1850-1945), Knight, surgeon
- Bryce, Alexander Graham, (1890-1968), surgeon
- Buckland, William, (1784-1856), Dean of Westminster, geologist
- Busk, George, (1807-1886), scientist
- Campbell, John Menzies, (1887-1974), dental surgeon
- Carless, Albert, (1859-1936), surgeon
- Carlisle, Sir Anthony, (1768-1840), Knight Surgeon
- Cave, Alexander James Edward, (1900-2001), anatomist
- Chadwick, Sir Edwin, (1800-1890), Knight, sanitary reformer
- Cheselden, William, (1688-1752), Surgeon and Anatomist
- Clark, Sir James, (1788-1870), 1st Baronet physician
- Clift, William, (1775-1849), Naturalist
- Cline, Henry, (1750-1827), Surgeon
- Cooper, Sir Astley Paston, (1768-1841), 1st Baronet Surgeon
- Cruikshank, William Cumberland, (1745-1800), Anatomist
- Cuming, Hugh, (1791-1865), naturalist
- Da Costa, Emanuel Mendes, (1717-1791), naturalist
- Dunhill, Sir Thomas Peel, (1876-1957), Knight, surgeon
- Edgeworth, Maria, (1768-1849), novelist and children's writer
- Edwards, Arthur Tudor, (1890-1946), surgeon
- Edwards, Harold Clifford, (1899-1989), surgeon
- Ellis, John, (1714-1776), naturalist
- English, Sir Terence Alexander Hawthorne, (b 1932), Knight, surgeon
- Falconer, Hugh, (1808-1865), botanist and palaeontologist
- Fergusson, Sir William, (1808-1877), 1st Baronet Surgeon
- Fish, Sir Eric Wilfred, (1894-1974), Knight Dental Surgeon
- Flower, Sir William Henry, (1831-1899), Knight Zoologist
- Forsyth, William, (1737-1804), Horticulturist
- Gillies, Sir Harold Delf, (1882-1960), Knight, Knight, plastic surgeon
- Gordon-Taylor, Sir Gordon, (1878-1960), Knight, Knight, surgeon
- Gould, John, (1804-1881), ornithologist
- Green, Joseph Henry, (1791-1863), Anatomist
- Guthrie, George James, (1785-1856), Surgeon
- Heaviside, John, (fl 1792), surgeon
- Hewson, William, (1739-1774), Surgeon and Anatomist
- Hicks, John Herbert, (1915-1992), surgeon
- Hodgson, Brian Houghton, (1800-1894), Indian Civil Servant Naturalist
- Home, Sir Everard, (1756-1832), 1st Baronet Surgeon
- Home, Sir James Everard, (1798-1853), 2nd Baronet Captain RN
- Howitt, Thomas, (1809-1886), Surgeon
- Hugo, Edward Victor, (1865-1951), Lieutenant Colonel, surgeon
- Hunter, Anne, (1742-1821), poet
- Hunter, John, (1728-1793), Anatomist and Surgeon
- Hunter, William, (1718-1783), Anatomist
- Hurt, Raymond, (b1922), cardiothoracic surgeon
- Jenner, Edward, (1749-1823), Physician and Naturalist
- Jones, Frederic Wood, (1879-1954), Anatomist
- Kater, Henry, (1777-1835), Scientist
- Keith, Sir Arthur, (1866-1955), Knight Anatomist
- Kerr, Sir John Graham, (1869-1957), Knight, zoologist
- Keynes, Sir Geoffrey Langdon, (1887-1982), Knight, surgeon and author
- Kipling, Joseph Rudyard, (1865-1936), author Mumbai, India
- Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray, (1847-1929), Knight, zoologist
- Lawrence, Sir William, (1783-1867), 1st Baronet Surgeon
- Le Fanu, William Richard, (1904-1995), librarian
- Lee, John Robert, (1873-1953), surgeon
- Lefanu, William Richard, (1904-1996), librarian of the Royal College of Surgeons
- Lister, Joseph, (1827-1912), Baron Lister, surgeon
- Lister, Sir William Tindall, (1868-1944), Knight Ophthalmic Surgeon
- Litler-Jones, Thomas Caldwell, (1874-1967), physician
- MacCormac, William, (1836-1901), Baronet Surgeon
- Maxwell, A Kirkpatrick, (1884-1975), medical artist
- Mayerne, Sir Theodore Turquet de, (1573-1655), Knight, physician
- McGill, Arthur Fergusson, (1846-1890), surgeon
- McIndoe, Sir Archibald Hector, (1900-1960), Knight, plastic surgeon
- Mellanby, Sir Edward, (1884-1955), Knight, physiologist
- Monro, Alexander, (1697-1767), physician
- Monro, Alexander, (1733-1817), anatomist
- Monro, Alexander, (1773-1859), anatomist
- Moynihan, Berkeley George Andrew, (1865-1936), 1st Baron Moynihan, surgeon
- Murie, James, (1832-1925), Naturalist
- Naples, Joshua, (fl 1811-1812), resurrectionist
- Negus, Sir Victor, (1887-1974), Knight Surgeon
- Nicholson, Sir John Charles, (1904-1986), 3rd Baronet Surgeon
- Owen, Sir Richard, (1804-1892), Knight, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist
- Paget, Sir James, (1814-1899), 1st Baronet, surgeon
- Pearce, Thomas Vibert, (1900-1975), Surgeon
- Perkins, George, (1892-1979), surgeon
- Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph, (1791-1865), surgeon and antiquary
- Pott, Percivall, (1714-1788), Surgeon
- Quekett, John Thomas, (1815-1861), Histologist
- Rideout, Percy Rodney, (1868-1956), Composer and Organist
- Ross, Sir James Paterson, (1895-1980), Knight, surgeon to the Queen
- Russell, Kenneth Fitzpatrick, (1911-1987), Anatomist
- Rutherford, William, (1839-1899), physiologist
- Scott, Sir Walter, (1771-1832), 1st Baronet, poet and novelist
- Simon, Sir John, (1816-1904), Knight Sanitary Reformer
- Slack, William Willatt, (b1925), Knight, consultant surgeon, Serjeant Surgeon to Her Majesty the Queen
- Smith, Sir Andrew, (1797-1872), Knight, surgeon and zoologist
- Smith, Arthur Hopewell, (c1866-1931), dental surgeon
- Sotheby, William, (1757-1833), author
- South, John Flint, (1797-1882), Surgeon
- Souttar, Sir Henry, (1875-1964), Knight Surgeon
- Stobie, Harry, (1882-1948), dental surgeon
- Thomson, Allen, (1809-1884), biologist
- Tildesley, Miriam Louise, (b 1883), craniologist
- Travers, Benjamin, (1783-1858), Surgeon
- Treves, Sir Frederick, (1853-1923), Knight Surgeon
- Walton, Sir James, (1881-1955), Knight, surgeon
- Webb-Johnson, Alfred Edward, (1880-1958), Baron Webb Johnson
- Willis, Rupert Allan, (1898-1980), pathologist
- Withering, William, (1741-1799), Physician Botanist and Mineralogist
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (3)
- NRA 28258 Alexander Graham Bryce: papers rel to the Society of Thoracic Surgeons
- NRA 20550 Sir Eric Wilfred Fish (dental surgeon) corresp and papers
- NRA 9521 Royal College of Surgeons of England: scientific MSS
Accessions
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