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MAITLAND, Andrew (1809-1856)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 G/PP1/34

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: MAITLAND, Andrew (1809-1856)

Date(s): 1824-1832, 1989-1990

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume; 4 items, 1 file

Name of creator(s): Maitland | Andrew Wright | 1809-1856 | surgeon

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, Jamaica, 1809; pupil at Guy's Hospital, 1824; apprenticed to Richard Stocker, the Hospital's Apothecary; dresser to Bransby Cooper, Guy's Hospital; Ship's Surgeon to the HECTOR, 1831; returned to Jamaica, 1831; practiced medicine; Assistant Surgeon to the St Elizabeth Regiment of Foot, 1834; Health Officer for the Port of Black River, Cornwall County, 1841; elected Fellow, College of Physicians and Surgeons in Jamaica, 1842; died, 1856.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Andrew Wright Maitland, comprising notebook containing reports of cases admitted to Guy's Hospital from Jun-Sep 1830, list of passengers on board the Hector on a voyage from London to Ceylon [Sri Lanka] via Mauritius, Oct 1830-Nov 1831 and medical cases treated during voyage, copies of letters written on board, accounts of purchases in Colombo, list of casualties, description of voyage, also notes on tetanus, Nov 1832;
Maitland's admission cards for the Pupil's Physical Society, 1832-1833; for lectures in theory and practice of medicine by Richard Bright, Oct 1827; for surgical operations and practice at Guy's and St Thomas, Apr 1929;
piece of a book cover inscribed 'Andrew Wright Maitland entered Guy's Hospital Mar 5th and was articled to Mr Stocker the following day Mar 6, 1824';
correspondence of the School Secretary's concerning personal papers belonging to Andrew Maitland donated to Guy's Medical School library, and biographical information about Maitland, Jun 1989-Sep 1990.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in the scope and content.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive and Corporate Record Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Presented to Guy's Hospital Medial School by members of Andrew Maitland's family in 1989 and 1990.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from Guy's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

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: October 2001; revised January 2003, June 2004


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Hospitals | Health services
Medical education | Higher science education
Medical records | Documents | Information sources
Patients | Health services
Physicians | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Ships | Vehicles | Transport
Surgeons | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Surgery | Medical sciences
Surgeons x Physicians
Medical institutions
Personnel
Primary documents
Social sciences
Social welfare

Personal names
Bright | Richard | 1789-1858 | Physician Extraordinary to the Queen
Maitland | Andrew Wright | 1809-1856 | surgeon
Stocker | Richard | d 1834 | Apothecary to Guy's Hospital

Corporate names
Guy's Hospital Pupil's Physical Society
Guy's Hospital | London

Places
Jamaica | Caribbean
Southwark | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Sri Lanka | South Asia