IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1538 S4
Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Title: PEEL, Sir John: biographies of the Fellows of the RCOG
Date(s): 1970-1974
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 6 folders
Name of creator(s): Peel | Sir | John | Knight | President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
John Harold Peel KCVO, MA, BM BCh (Oxon), FRCP, FRCS, Hon FRCOG, Hon DSc (Birm), Hon FRCS(C.), Hon FCOG (SA), Hon FACS, Hon FACOG, Hon NMSA, Hon DM (Soton), Hon SCh (Newcastle) served as the College's Honorary Treasurer from 1959-1966 and as President from 1966-1969. He was elevated to the honorary fellowship of the College in 1989. On retiring as President of the College in 1969, John Peel was asked by Council to undertake the task of preparing a history of the lives of the Fellows, along the same lines as volumes published by the two older Royal Colleges (the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons of England). The completed work was published in 1976 as The Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1929-1969 (Whitefriars Press Ltd, 1976).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, 1970-1976, consisting of biographies of lives of the Fellows collected by Sir John Peel for his book The Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1929-1969 (Whitefriars Press Ltd, 1976), including notes and correspondence.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
The papers are held in the College Library; refer to Librarian.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright: Sir John Peel.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
A general index to the files listed in the catalogue of the Archives of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is maintained in the College Archives; refer to the College Archivist.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
No further accruals are expected.
Archival history:
The files in this series, along with some other papers, appear to have been maintained on Peel's behalf in the College Secretary's office. They may have become separated from other correspondence of Peel's relating to the book, now in the College Secretary's file series (see A8/5/9), and passed at some stage to the College Archives.
Immediate source of acquisition:
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
RCOG Archives holds papers relating to Peel's term as President (Ref: A4/13); file relating to his honorary fellowship is (Ref: A13/4/13); file of Peel's correspondence concerning the collection of material for the book is in the College Secretary's papers (Ref: A8/5/9); Sir Harold Francis' comments on the book (Ref: S44); a copy of The Lives of the Fellows is available for consultation in the Archives; photographs of John Peel (Refs: PH1P/13/1-2, PH2/1, PH3/5/1-3 and 6, PH3/6/1, PH3/18/1, PH3/22/7-9, PH5/8/2, PH5/9, PH5/12/1, PH6/7, PH7/10, PH8/18, PH9/3, PH9/16-17 and PH9/35).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Sources: Biographical details of the individuals who have presented material to the College and/or comprise the subject of the records, have been compiled using information in administrative files and, where relevant, consulting Sir John Peel's book The Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1929-1969, Whitefriars Press Ltd, 1975. Compiled by Clare Cowling, Archivist, RCOG.
Date(s) of descriptions: September 2000