IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 TH/PP ORD
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: ORD family [1843-1902]
Date(s): 1855, 1887
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 medals
Name of creator(s): Ord | William Miller | 1834-1902 | physician
Ord | William Wallis | fl 1887 | medical student | son of William Miller Ord
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
William Miller Ord was born on 23 September 1834; the son of George Ord, FRCS, and his wife Harriet (nee Clark). He was educated at St Thomas's Hospital London. Awarded MD London; FRCP, FLS. Ord was Consulting Physician St Thomas's Hospital; Treasurer of the Clinical Society; Fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society. He married firstly in 1859, Julia Rainbow (died 1864), and secondly Jane Youl. He died on 14 May 1902.
Publications: Influence of Colloids upon Crystalline Forms, 1879; edited the Works of Francis Sibson, 1881; various papers on "Myxodema" (including the Bradshawe Lecture, 1898); Neurotic Dystrophies; Notes on Comparative Anatomy, 1871; papers on Neurotic Origin of Gout; The Relations of Arthritis; Lettsomian Oration; A Doctor's Holiday (oration to Medical Society, 1894); an edition of Nomenclature of Diseases, 1884; and many others.
William Wallis Ord was born in 1869, the son of William Miller Ord and his wife Julie nee Rainbow. He was a student at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, 1883-1887. Awarded MA, MD BCh Oxon, MRCP London, OBE.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Cheselden Medal (founded 1850), presented to W M Ord, 1855 for Surgery and Surgical Anatomy;
and Richard Mead Medal (damaged) awarded to William Wallis Ord for proficiency in practical medicine, 1887.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Two medals
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:
Acquired by from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from St Thomas Hospital Medical School Library, March 2004
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Who's Who 1897-1996 CD-ROM (A & C Black); Alphabetical and Local List of Old Students of St Thomas's Hospital, 1923-1924. Complied by Alison Field.
Date(s) of descriptions: March 2004