IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0113 MS-ENGLS
Held at: Royal College of Physicians
Title: ENGLAND, Samuel (18th century)
Date(s): 1703-1733
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): England | Samuel | 18th century | apothecary
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Samuel England was an apothecary who flourished in the middle of the eighteenth century. It appears he was an apprentice in the 1730s, referring in his notebooks of 1730-33 to his master, and to doctors by the names of Talbot, Dunning, and Bere. It is thought that Samuel England came from the West Country of England, either Devon, Dorset, or Somerset.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Two notebooks with clinical details and descriptions of numerous cases, 1730-33
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Unrestricted
Conditions governing reproduction:
All requests should be referred to the Archivist
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased from Viner & Hart Booksellers Ltd., October 1971
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Source: College correspondence relating to the acquisition of Samuel England's notebooks.
Compiled by Katharine Williams
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: March 2003