Kennaway, Sir Ernest (1881-1958)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0120 PP/ELK |
Held at | : Wellcome Library Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ › |
Full title | : Kennaway, Sir Ernest (1881-1958) |
Date(s) | : 1899-1957 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 3 boxes |
Name of creator(s) | : Kennaway | Sir | Ernest Laurence | 1881-1958 | Knight | experimental pathologist |
Detailed catalogue | : Click here to view repository detailed catalogue |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Sir Ernest Laurence Kennaway (1881-1958) M.A., M.D., D.S.C., F.R.C.P., F.R.S, was Professor of Experimental Pathology at the Royal Cancer Hospital (Royal Marsden Hospital) and Director of the Chester Beatty Institute from 1928 to 1946.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Sir Ernest Kennaway, 1899-1957. Most of the items in this collection appear to relate to the later years of Sir Ernest's career. The collection chiefly comprises notebooks on medical issues such as substance-related illnesses and occupational diseases (chiefly cancers) plus a little material on religious issues.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Finding aids:
Archival Information
Archival history:
The items in this collection may have been brought together by Sir Alexander Haddow in the process of preparing his Kennaway Lecture.
Immediate source of acquisition:
These papers were transferred to the Wellcome Library from the Library of the Institute of Cancer Research, Fulham Road, London, in April 1984.
Allied Materials
Related material:
In the Wellcome Library: See also the papers of Sir Alexander Haddow (PP/HAD).
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions:
In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions:
Jan 2009
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