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Royal College of Surgeons of England

Carless, Albert (1863-1936)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0064

Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England

Title: Carless, Albert (1863-1936)

Date(s): 1881-1936

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 boxes

Name of creator(s): Carless | Albert | 1863-1936 | surgeon

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Albert Carless was born in Surrey, in 1863. He was educated at Carrington Lodge, Richmond; at King's College School, London; at King's College London, where he won the senior scholarship in 1885; and at King's College Hospital. He had a distinguished undergraduate career, qualifying for the gold medal in surgery at the BS examination in 1887 and at the MS examination in the following year. In the King's College medical faculty he won the gold medal and prize for botany, the junior scholarship, the second-year scholarship, the senior medical scholarship, the Warneford prize and the Leathes prize. He was appointed house surgeon to King's College Hospital in 1885 and three years later he became Sambrooke surgical registrar. He was elected assistant surgeon to the Hospital in 1889, having the good fortune to serve under Joseph Lister; became surgeon in 1898, and from 1902 to 1918 was Professor of Surgery at King's College in succession to William Watson Cheyne. He accepted a commission as major a la suite in the territorial service in 1912, and was gazetted colonel AMS in 1917, serving at first as surgeon to the 4th London General Hospital and later as consulting surgeon to the Eastern Command; for his services he was created CBE in 1919. He retired from surgical work on demobilisation in 1919, resigned his hospital appointments, and devoted himself during the rest of his life to philanthropic work. He acted as honorary medical director at Dr Barnardo's Homes from 1919 to 1926. He died in 1936.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Albert Carless, 1881-1936, comprising information relating to education, 1879-1889; drafts of speeches, c 1904-1922; notes, c 1912-1920; letters and papers referring to work during World War One, 1908-1921; information relating to Barnardo's, 1919-1926; letters and testimonials, 1890-1919; personal information, 1911-1936; reprints of work by Arthur Carless, 1896-1902; and publications and reprints of work by other authors, 1910-1935.

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.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Additional manuscripts catalogue.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The provenance of the collection is unknown. The papers were found in the Library in 1997, and were accessioned in 2000.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Surgical lecture notes in King's College London Archives (KH/PP1).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Source: The Lives of the Fellows of The Royal College of Surgeons of England, Volume 3: 1930-1951, p 131.

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
Medical education | Higher science education
Speeches | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Surgery | Medical sciences
Testimonials | Documents | Information sources
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Education

Personal names
Carless | Albert | 1863-1936 | surgeon

Corporate names
Dr Barnardo's Homes

Places