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LYLE, Herbert Willoughby (1870-1956)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA KH/PP11

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: LYLE, Herbert Willoughby (1870-1956)

Date(s): 1891-1960

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume with loose inserts

Name of creator(s): Lyle | Herbert Willoughby | 1870-1956 | Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1870; Educated, King's College School and King's College London; House Surgeon and Ophthalmic Assistant, King's College Hospital; Resident Medical Officer, St Peter's Hospital, London; Surgeon and Dean, Royal Eye Hospital, London; Ophthalmic Surgeon, Royal Ear Hospital, London; Senior Demonstrator of Anatomy and Tutor, Sheffield Medical School; Demonstrator of Physiology and Lecturer in Animal Biology, King's College London, 1895; Lecturer, Zoology, Animal Biology and Elementary Biology, King's College London, 1900; Lecturer, Physiology, King's College London, 1904; Assistant Ophthalmic Surgeon, King's College Hospital, 1910; Dean, King's College Hospital Medical School, 1911; Fellow, 1922, Associate and Member of the Corporation of King's College London; Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon to King's College Hospital, 1929, and Beckenham Hospital, Kent; Dean Emeritus and Emeritus Lecturer on Ophthalmology, King's College Hospital Medical School, 1929; Consulting Surgeon, Royal Eye Hospital; Honorary Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon to Royal School for Blind, and South London Institute for the Blind; died, 13 March 1956. Publications: Manual of physiology for students and practitioners (1911); King's and some King's men: being a record of the Medical Department of King's College, London, from 1830-1909 and of King's College Hospital Medical School from 1909 to 1934 (Oxford University Press, London, 1935, Addendum to 1948, 1950); Applied physiology of the eye assisted by T Keith Lyle (Baillière, Tindall & Cox, London, 1958).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1891-1960, including an alphabetical index of private pupils of Willoughby Lyle, 1891-1901; manuscript summary of the career of Katherine Henrietta Monk, Matron, King's College Hospital, submitted to Lyle by Alice Little, Sister, King's College Hospital, 1939; obituaries mainly from The Lancet, of Philip Franklin, otolaryngologist, John Alexander Drake, Physician for Diseases of the Skin, King's College Hospital, Francis Henry Mosse, medical missionary, and others, 1926-1952; pamphlet biography of William Frederick Danvers Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden, comprising obituaries and memorials from a number of newspapers and an address at his funeral at Remenham Church, 1928; a brief biography by Lyle of Professor Robert Bentley Todd, Physician to King's College Hospital, [1928].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 volume index, with loose papers inserted

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:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

King's College Hospital.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Further sources for Lyle's work at King's College Hospital are King's College London Council minutes (ref: KA/C/M), and King's College Hospital Committee of Management minutes (ref: KH/C/M/M), held by King's College London Archives.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Sources: H Willoughby Lyle King's and some King's men (Oxford University Press, London, 1935); Who's Who 1897-1996; British Library OPAC 97. Compiled by Annabel Dodds.

Rules or conventions: National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second edition, 2000.

Date(s) of descriptions: May 2000.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Biographies | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Hospitals | Health services
Indexes | Secondary documents
Medical education | Higher science education
Medical students | Students
Medical institutions
Social sciences
Social welfare

Personal names
Drake | John Alexander | b 1878 | physician
Franklin | Philip | d 1951 | otolaryngologist
Lyle | Herbert Willoughby | 1870-1956 | ophthalmic surgeon
Monk | Katherine Henrietta | 1855-1915 | matron, King's College Hospital
Mosse | Francis Henry | medical missionary
Smith | William Frederick Danvers | 1868-1928 | 2nd Viscount Hambleden x Hambleden | 2nd Viscount
Todd | Robert Bentley | 1809-1860 | Professor of Physiology

Corporate names
King's College Hospital

Places