IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0159
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: Bird, Henry (d 1892)
Date(s): 1832-1880
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): Bird | Henry | d 1892 | surgeon
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Henry Bird was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He practised at Cinderford, East Dean, Gloucestershire; the Vicarage, Christow, Exeter; and at Wattisfield, Suffolk. He retired at Wattisfield, but later moved to Oldham. He died in 1892.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Henry Bird, 1832-1880, comprising a case book and commonplace book, 1849-1880; and testimonials, letters and reprints, 1832-1880.
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:
No photocopying permitted.
Finding aids:
Additional manuscripts catalogue.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated by Stephen Hadfield (MRCS), great grandson of Henry Bird, in 1992.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Source: Plarr, Victor, Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Volume 1 1930.
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: Sep 2008