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Royal College of Surgeons of England
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London Metropolitan Archives (LMA)
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Businesses (1)
- Charles Bayley, chemist Edinburgh, Midlothian
Organisations (11)
- British Journal of Surgery Society
- Cardiothoracic Society
- Deptford Hospital Deptford, Kent
- 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
- Costa, Emanuel Mendes Da (1717-1791), naturalist
- Cruikshank, William Cumberland (1745-1800) Anatomist
- Cuming, Hugh (1791-1865), 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
- Fanu, William Richard Le (1904-1995), librarian
- 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, plastic surgeon
- Gordon-Taylor, Sir Gordon (1878-1960), 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
- Johnson, Alfred Edward Webb- (1880-1958) Baron Webb Johnson
- Jones, Frederic Wood (1879-1954) Anatomist
- Jones, Thomas Caldwell Litler- (1874-1967) physician
- 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, Rudyard (1865-1936), author Mumbai, India
- Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray (1847-1929) Knight, zoologist
- Lawrence, Sir William (1783-1867) 1st Baronet Surgeon
- 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
- 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
- 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
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