IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 TH/PP57
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: SMART, Thomas (fl 1786-1845)
Date(s): 1777-[1824]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volumes
Name of creator(s): Smart | Thomas | d.1845 | medical student
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Thomas Smart, entered St Thomas's Hospital as a pupil, Feb 1786. He practiced in London, and then Cheshunt until he retired in 1830. He died in Tottenham in 1845.
Henry Cline: born, London, 1750; educated, Merchant Taylors' School; apprenticed to Mr Thomas Smith, surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, 1767; diploma from Surgeons' Hall, 1774; Lecturer on anatomy, St Thomas's Hospital, 1781-1811; Surgeon, St Thomas's Hospital, 1784-1811; examiner at the College of Surgeons, 1810; master of the College of Surgeons, 1815, president, 1823; delivered the Hunterian oration, 1816, 1824; died, 1827.
Publications: On the Form of Animals (Bulmer & Co, London, 1805).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Thomas Smart comprising lecture notes of 'Mr Cline's physiological, anatomical, and chirurgical lectures', [1790], delivered 1786-1787, taken by Smart when a student.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
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 Archives and Corporate Records Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School (1491-1900) D T Bird (London, 1984).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Presented to St Thomas Hospital Medical School Library in 1888 by Charles William Herbert Smart, great grandson of Thomas Smart.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from St Thomas' Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Cline's Lecture notes, 1788-1805, held by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, (reference: MSS 1672-83); lecture notes are also held by the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and Birmingham University Special Collections Department (reference: 1958/iii/30-32).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Previous reference: M29
Archivist's note: Sources: Dictionary of National Biography CD-ROM (Oxford University Press, 1995); Historical Manuscripts Commission's On-Line National Register of Archives; Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School (1491-1900) D T Bird (London, 1984); British Library Public On-line catalogue. Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Date(s) of descriptions: April 2002. Revised January 2004