IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0032
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: Robinson, Richard Radford (1806-1854)
Date(s): 1828-1849
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 4 volumes
Name of creator(s): Robinson | Richard Radford | 1806-1854 | surgeon
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Richard Radford Robinson was born in 1806. He was the eldest son of Henry Robinson of East Dulwich. He practised in south London and was Surgeon to the London Dispensary, a Member of the Court of Examiners of the Apothecaries' Company, and President of the South London Medical Society. His essay Fractures of Ribs, Sternum and Pelvis won the Jacksonian Prize in 1831, and his dissertation Formation, Constituents and Extraction of Urinary Calculi won the honorarium in 1833. He died in London in 1854.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Richard Radford Robinson, 1828-1849, comprising details of medical cases, 1831-1836; details of medical cases in Camberwell, 1832-1835; details of surgical cases in Camberwell, 1828-1831; and notes on medical subjects, medical cases, and quotes from lectures, 1833-1849.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Access available to bona fide researchers with a written appointment.
Conditions governing reproduction:
At the discretion of the Librarian.
Finding aids:
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1928) by Victor G Plarr.
Card index.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2008