IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0113 MS-MATOW
Held at: Royal College of Physicians
Title: MATON, William George (1774-1835): memoirs of Richard Pulteney
Date(s): 18th century
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 item
Name of creator(s): Maton | William George | 1774-1835 | physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
William George Maton was born, 1774; educated at Salisbury's Free Grammar School; Queen's College, Oxford, 1790-1797; medical studies at Westminster Hospital, 1779-[1801]; Fellow of the College of Surgeons, 1802; Goulstonian lecturer in 1803, Censor 1804, 1813, and 1824; Treasurer, 1814-1820; Harveian orator, 1815; Physician to the Westminster Hospital, 1800-1808; Physician-Extraordinary to Queen Charlotte, 1816; Physician-in-Ordinary to the Duchess of Kent and to the infant Princess Victoria, 1820; died, 1835.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Memoirs of Richard Pulteney by his friend William George Maton, MD, prefixed to a second edition of Dr Pulteney's Life and writings of Linnaens, (1805), illustrated by various original letters, drawings, prints etc. and interleaved with diplomas from various medical societies, and catalogue of the library of Dr Pulteney.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Single item
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
All requests should be referred to the Archivist.
Finding aids:
Available at the Royal College of Physicians.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Provenance of the collection is unknown.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Oxford DNB.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2008