IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA KH/PP5
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: FAIRBANK, Sir (Harold Arthur) Thomas (1876-1961)
Date(s): 1914-1961
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Fairbank | Sir | Harold Arthur Thomas | 1876-1961 | Knight | Consulting Orthopaedic Surgeon
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 28 March 1876; educated, Epsom College, Surrey, and Charing Cross Hospital, London; Civil Surgeon, South African War; Lady Jones Lecturer, Liverpool University, 1929; Robert Jones Lecturer, Royal College of Surgeons, 1938; founded new department of Orthopaedic Surgery, King's College Hospital, 1939; Simpson-Smith Lecturer, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, 1952; late Consultant Adviser on Orthopaedics to Ministry of Health for Emergency Medical Service; Honorary Consultant (Orthopaedic) to the Army at Home; Consulting Surgeon, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London; Consulting Orthopaedic Surgeon, King's College Hospital; Emeritus Lecturer in Orthopaedic Surgery, King's College Hospital Medical School; Emeritus Surgeon, Lord Mayor Treloar's Orthopaedic Hospital, Alton; knighted, 1946; died 26 February 1961. Publications: An atlas of general affections of the skeleton (E & S Livingstone, Edinburgh & London, 1951).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, 1914-1961, including correspondence, mainly between Fairbank and Hubert Lyon-Campbell Wood, Senior Orthopaedic Surgeon, King's College Hospital, on various cases such as oxycephaly, cystic changes in the femora, dislocation of the elbow, Fairbank's birthday dinner, 1956, 1935-1961; scrapbook containing signatures of guests at dinners held in honour of Fairbank, 1936-1956; list of Fairbank's publications, 1957; articles by Fairbank reprinted from medical journals, including 'Dysplasia epiphysealis multiplex', 'Fibrocystic disease of the bone', 'Haemangioma of bone', 1914-1956; programme of a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine, Section on Orthopaedics, with abstract of a paper by Fairbank on the internal derangement of the knee in children and adolescents, 1936; newspaper cuttings of Fairbank's obituaries and memorial service programmes, 1961; a brief typescript biography describing Fairbank's time at King's College Hospital, by Lyon-Campbell Wood, 1961.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1 file
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Handlist available in the reading room of the College Archives.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
King's College Hospital
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Related material:
Further information on Fairbank's work at King's College Hospital may be found in King's College Hospital Committee of Management minutes (ref: KH/C/M/M).
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Sources: Who's Who 1897-1996, CD-ROM (A & C Black); British Library OPAC 97. Compiled by Annabel Dodds.
Date(s) of descriptions: May 2000