IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0055
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: Crookshank, Francis Graham
Date(s): 1925
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Crookshank | Francis Graham | 1873-1933 | physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Francis Graham Crookshank was born in 1873. He was educated at University College London and qualified in 1894. He worked in resident appointments at University College Hospital, the Brompton Hospital, and the Northampton County Asylum. After this he began general practice at Barnes. During World War One he served in France as medical director of the English Military Hospital at Caen, and later as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. After the war he worked at the London Hospital, the Prince of Wales General Hospital, St Marks Hospital and the French Hospital. At this time he became interested in the psychological and philosophical aspects of medicine, and contributed to standard works on psychology and psycho-analysis. He helped to form a medical group that became known as the Medical Society of Individual Psychology. He became Bradshaw lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians, in 1926. He died in 1933.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Francis Graham Crookshank, 1925, comprising a copy Crookshank's book The Mongol in our Midst: A study of man and his three faces 2nd edition (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd, New York, 1925). Including manuscript notes made by Dr Thomas Brushfield.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
By written appointment only.
Conditions governing reproduction:
At the discretion of the librarian.
Finding aids:
Library card catalogue.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The volume was given by Crookshank to Dr Thomas Brushfield (MRCS Eng 1886) in 1925. The date of the donation of the volume to the Library is not known.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Source: Monks Roll, Volume IV, 1826-1925.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2008