IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0113 MS-POYNF
Held at: Royal College of Physicians
Title: POYNTON, Frederic John (1869-1943)
Date(s): [1902]-1940
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 4 items
Name of creator(s): Poynton | Frederic John | 1869-1943 | paediatrician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1869; educated at Marlborough School; studied medicine at University College, Bristol and St Mary's Hospital; qualified, 1893; Assistant Physician at Great Ormond Street, 1900; Assistant Physician, in charge of the children's wards, at University College Hospital, 1903; full Physician at UCH, 1910; full Physician at Great Ormond Street, 1919; First World War captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps; Bradshaw lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians, 1924; Lettsomian lecturer at the Medical Society of London, 1927; President of the British Paediatric Association, 1931; Long Fox Lecturer at Bristol, 1934; retired from his hospital appointments, 1934; died, 1943.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Frederic John Poynton, [1902]-1940, including scrapbook, with letters and newspaper cuttings relating to Poynton and addresses including on the occasion of the unveiling of a memorial to Dr William Oliver, on the history of early aeronautics and the history of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Unknown
Conditions governing access:
Records are open for consultation.
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:
Donated by Dr F J Poynton, 1935.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Biographical information was found using a Google search.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2008