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Great Ormond Street Hospital Archives

Constitutional and Legal Records


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GOS/2

Held at: Great Ormond Street Hospital Archives

Title: Constitutional and Legal Records

Date(s): 1908-1960

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Great Ormond Street Hospital

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Great Ormond Street Hospital was founded in 1852 by Charles West on its current site in Bloomsbury as the Hospital for Sick Children. It was the first children's hospital in Britain. It became part of the NHS in 1948 and took over the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Sick Children in 1968. It went through several changes of name during this period and adopted its current name in 1994.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Constitutional and legal records of Great Ormond Street Hospital, 1908-1960, comprising 'Memoranda and Articles of Association', 1914; annotated 1936; 1939; Constitution and Rules of the Hospital, 1908 and 1924 editions; register of seals, 1952-1960; Miscellaneous legal correspondence, 1930-1932; copy letters to the Hospital’s and other lawyers regarding the revision of Articles of Association; Peter Pan copyright agreements with the Daniel Mayer Co., and George Bell Ltd.; administration of legacies to the Hospital; administration of Hospital property and tenancies, Guilford Street, London.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in 4 series.

Conditions governing access:

Open to the public.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Items can be copied without restriction.

Finding aids:

Typescript catalogue available for consultation in the Archives.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Great Ormond Street Hospital.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Compiled by Andrea Tanner.

Date(s) of descriptions: October 2010


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Copyright | Intellectual property | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Hospital administration | Hospitals | Health services
Legal documents | Law
Documents
Medical institutions

Personal names

Corporate names
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust x The Hospital for Sick Children x Great Ormond Street Hospital x The Hospital for Children
Great Ormond Street Hospital x Hospital for Sick Children | Great Ormond Street x Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust x The Hospital for Sick Children x The Hospital for Children

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