IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 TH/PP31
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: HORTON-SMITH, Raymond John (1873-1899 )
Date(s): 1894-1899
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Horton-Smith | Raymond John | 1873-1899 | physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
R J Horton-Smith was born in London on 16 Mar 1873, the son of Richard Horton-Smith and his wife Marilla nee Baily. He was educated at Reading and Marlborough College, Wiltshire, St John's College Cambridge, University of London (Wainwright Prizeman) and St Thomas' Hospital Medical School. He was awarded MA, MB, BC, MRCS, LRCP. He died of tuberculosis on 8 Oct 1899, at Davos, Switzerland, aged 27.
The Raymond Horton-Smith Prize I the University of Cambridge was founded in his honour in 1900.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers relating to Raymond John Horton-Smith, (1873-1899), including printed notices of his death, obituaries, photograph, and various published articles.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1 volume
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
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Archival history:
Papers were collected by Lionel Horton-Smith, brother of Raymond Horton-Smith, and bound together. Deposited in the St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library, 1977
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Sources: obituaries contained in the item itself. Compiled by Alison Field
Date(s) of descriptions: January 2004