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