IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1538 S52
Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Title: Midwifery Certificates
Date(s): 1757-1892
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: Two outsize folders
Name of creator(s): Smellie | William | 1697-1753 | physician and obstetrician
Obstetrical Society of London
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The series comprises midwifery certificates awarded in the C18 and C19.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Midwifery certificates donated to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, comprising certificate of competence in midwifery presented to John Harvey, signed by William Smellie M D obstetrician, on 1 Dec 1757 (S52/1); certificate in midwifery awarded to Esther Lavinia Potter by the Obstetrical Society of London on 24 Oct 1888 (S52/2); certificate in midwifery awarded to Isabella Board by the Obstetrical Society of London in 1892 (S52/3).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged in order as given in scope and content
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Out of copyright. S52/3 is too fragile to be copied.
Physical characteristics:
S52/3 is in a very poor condition
Finding aids:
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
No further accruals are expected.
Archival history:
S52/1: found in the attic of a house in Carlisle and presented to the RCOG by Dr Josephine Williamson, date unknownS52/2: persented to the College Library by N Hamilton of Messrs Geering and Colyer estate agents, via K Cooper FRCOG, in 1987S52/3: presented to the RCOG by Dr G O Barber in 1958.
Immediate source of acquisition:
All items passed to the Archives from other College departments at an unknown date.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
The College Librarian's correspondence, 1987, re S52/2 is at B6/4. Library correspondence, 1968, re William Smellie, is at B6/5. A copy of an advertisement in the Daily Advertiser, 1746, for a series of lectures in midwifery by Smellie is at s22. A portrait photograph of Smellie is at PH21/2. A printed announcement of a meeting of the Ostetrical Society of London, 1866, is at S16.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Clare Cowling, Archivist, RCOG
Rules or conventions: National council on archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second edition, 2000
Date(s) of descriptions: 20 June 2001