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ANWYL-DAVIES, Thomas (1891-1971)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 TH/PP3

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: ANWYL-DAVIES, Thomas (1891-1971)

Date(s): [1895-1904]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 4 volumes

Name of creator(s): Anwyl-Davies | Thomas | 1891-1971 | physician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1891; educated, Bonn, Marburg, Lille; trained at St Thomas's Hospital; University of London; BS 1917 (London); MD 1930; Director, London Hospital (Whitechapel) Clinic for Venereal Diseases, 1930-1936; Lecturer on Venereal Diseases to London Hospital Medical College; Consultant and Venereologist to London County Council, 1930-1936; Director and Physician in Charge of the Department of Venereal Diseases, St Thomas's Hospital, 1936-1956; Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, 1937; Fellow Royal Society of Medicine; London University Lecturer at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School; Honourable Secretary, Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, 1956-1970; Consulting Physician to St Thomas's Hospital; died, 1971.
Publications include: Primary Syphilis in the Female (Oxford University Press, London, 1931); The Treatment of Veneral Disease in General Practice (John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, London, 1935); books, papers and articles on research into therapeutic and administrative problems of venereology; yearly contributions to The Medical Annual, 1937-1959.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Thomas Anwyl-Davies, comprising photograph albums of exterior and interior scenes of St Thomas's Hospital, 1910-1917, compiled whilst a student and House Surgeon at St Thomas's, including photographs of staff, sports teams and surgical operations; albums of press cuttings, [1918-1965], relating to venereal disease, his work at St Thomas's Hospital Department of Venereal Diseases and London Hospital (Whitechapel) Clinic for Venereal Diseases, copies of some of his articles and lectures on venereal disease, press cuttings relating to the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Detailed catalogue

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 and Corporate Record Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

This collection level description available online.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Acquired by St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Sources: Who's Who 1897-1996 CD-ROM (A & C Black); British Library Public On-line Catalogue. Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

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: September 2002; revised January 2003


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Medical students | Students
Photographs | Visual materials
Physicians | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Press cuttings | Newspaper press | Press
Surgery | Medical sciences
Venereal diseases | Infectious diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Personnel

Personal names
Anwyl-Davies | Thomas | 1891-1971 | physician x Davies | Thomas | Anwyl-

Corporate names
London County Council (Whitechapel) Clinic for Venereal Diseases
Royal Medical Benevolent Fund
St Thomas' Hospital | London
Whitechapel Clinic

Places
Lambeth | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Stepney | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Whitechapel | Tower Hamlets | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe