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Royal College of Physicians

PALMER, Ralph


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0113 MS-PALMR

Held at: Royal College of Physicians

Title: PALMER, Ralph

Date(s): 17th century-18th century

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2 items

Name of creator(s): Palmer | Ralph | fl 1700 | nephew of Baldwin Hamey
Hamey | Baldwin | 1600-1676 | physician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Baldwin Hamey the younger was born, 1600; University of Leiden as a student of philosophy, 1617-; spent some time studying in Oxford; apprenticed to his father, 1622-1623; returned to Leiden, 1625-1626; MD, 1626; incorporated DM at Oxford, 1630; Fellow of the College of Physicians of London, 1634; eight times censor from 1640 to 1654; registrar, 1646 and 1650-1654; Treasurer, 1664-1666. Practised in London, 1627-1666; died, 1676.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Collection of papers by and about Baldwin Hamey (1600-1676); and a biographical memoir of Hamey, 1733.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Unknown

Conditions governing access:

Records are open for consultation.

Conditions governing reproduction:

All requests should be referred to the Archivist.

Finding aids:

Available at the Royal College of Physicians.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Collected by Baldwin Hamey's nephew Ralph Palmer and presented by him to College in 1700.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Publication note:

Palmer, R, Life of the most Eminent Dr. Baldwin Hamey, (1733).

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Oxford DNB.

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: Aug 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Biographies | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Medical societies | Societies | Associations | Organizations

Personal names
Hamey | Baldwin | 1600-1676 | physician

Corporate names
Royal College of Physicians of London

Places