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Hardy, Richard Henry (1921-1999)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 GP/12

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Hardy, Richard Henry (1921-1999)

Date(s): 1944-1992

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 9 boxes, 4 oversize boxes

Name of creator(s): Hardy | Richard Henry | 1921-1999 | general practitioner

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Richard Henry Hardy, DM, MRCGP, FRSM (1921-1999) was a general practitioner in Exmouth from the 1950s to 1970s, before relocating to Hereford and working at the General Hospital Accident and Emergency Department. He retired in the mid-1980s.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Richard Henry Hardy, 1952-1992, including records of cases and correspondence, general practice, Exmouth, 1952-1970, and Hereford General Hospital Accident and Emergency Department, 1971-1984, with reprints and unpublished writings, 1948-1992.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in sections as follows: A. Education and training B. General Practice, Exmouth 1952-70 C. Hereford General Hospital 1971-84 D. Writings.

Conditions governing access:

Certain restrictions apply. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking, with the following exceptions: Section B: B.1-4 are closed for 100 years, B.7/1-52 is Restricted Access for 84 years, B.7/53-72 is closed for 100 years. Section C: C.2-6 are closed for 100 years, C.10 is closed for 84 years.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Certain restrictions apply.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

These papers were given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre by Dr Hardy in July 1992.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry 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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
General practice | Medical sciences
General practitioners | Physicians | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Health services administration | Public administration | Government
Hospitals | Health services
Medical records | Documents | Information sources
Surgery | Medical sciences
Medical institutions
Personnel
Primary documents

Personal names
Hardy | Richard Henry | 1921-1999 | general practitioner

Corporate names

Places