Berry, Sir Colin Leonard (b 1937)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 MS.8410
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Berry, Sir Colin Leonard (b 1937)
Date(s)	: 1955-1959
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 3 files
Name of creator(s)	: Berry | Sir | Colin Leonard | b 1937 | Knight | physician and professor
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Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Colin Berry trained at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School from 1955 to 1959 and later specialised in Histopathology at the Hospital. He was awarded his MD in 1968. From 1964 he was Lecturer (later Senior Lecturer) at the Institute of Child Health, before being appointed Reader in Pathology at Guy's Hospital Medical School in 1970. In 1976 he was made Professor of Morbid Anatomy at the London Hospital Medical College, a chair he occupied till retirement in 2002. He was knighted in 1993.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Lecture notes, examination scripts and essays by Sir Colin Leonard Berry as a medical student, 1955-1959.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The papers are divided into three sections: 1. Biology notes taken at the Northern Polytechnic as part of study for his first MB, [1955]. 2.Course notes for the Biochemistry and Practical Organic Chemistry parts of Physiology paper III, second MB, Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, 1955. 3. Examination scripts and prize essays submitted as part of the 2nd MB, Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, 1955-[59].

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:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were acquired directly from Sir Colin Berry in 2005.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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:
Jul 2008