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Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Midwifery Certificates


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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Medical education | Higher science education
Midwifery | Nursing | Medical sciences
Professional associations | Associations | Organizations
Surgery | Medical sciences

Personal names
Board | Isabella | fl 1892 | midwife
Harvey | John | fl 1746 | physician
Potter | Esther Lavinia | fl 1888 | midwife
Smellie | William | 1697-1753 | physician and obstetrician

Corporate names
Obstetrical Society of London

Places