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Handley, William Sampson (1872-1962)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/152

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Handley, William Sampson (1872-1962)

Date(s): 1894-1938

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 boxes

Name of creator(s): Handley | William Sampson | 1872-1962 | surgeon

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

W Sampson Handley trained at Guy's Hospital, and graduated MB, BS, in 1895. After a period in general practice, his first post as a surgeon was at the Samaritan Hospital in 1900. In 1904 he won a research scholarship at the Middlesex Hospital, investigating the mode of spread of cancer. He was appointed assistant surgeon at the Middlesex in 1906, and pursued his researches in the Cancer Wing there while becoming a skilled abdominal surgeon.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of William Sampson Handley including student notebook Guy's Hospital, 1894, with notes on surgical techniques and diagnosis,and notes on cases seen at the Middlesex and Samaritan Hospitals, 1902-1912, with correspondence inserted.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

GC/152/2-3 are closed as follows: GC/152/2 closed until January 2039 GC/152/3 closed until January 2036.

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:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

These volumes were transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (now The Wellcome Library Archives and Manuscripts department) in September 1993 from the Modern Medicine Department of the Wellcome Institute Library, to which they had been given in August 1993 by Mrs Rosemary Handley, the widow of Handley's son, Richard Sampson Handley.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

For other related collections in Archives and Manuscripts see sources leaflets on Cancer, Hospitals: Individual Hospitals in the UK: London, and London.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: 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: Mar 2009.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Hospitals | Health services
Neoplasms | Neoplastic processes | Diseases | Pathology
Surgery | Medical sciences
Medical institutions
Pathologic processes

Personal names
Handley | William Sampson | 1872-1962 | surgeon

Corporate names
Guy's Hospital | London
Middlesex Hospital
Samaritan Society | London Hospital

Places