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Royal College of Surgeons of England

Perkins, George (1892-1979)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0264

Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England

Title: Perkins, George (1892-1979)

Date(s): 1908-1980

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Perkins | George | 1892-1979 | orthopaedic surgeon

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

George Perkins was born in Staines, Middlesex, in 1892. He was educated at Hurstpierpoint College, Sussex, and Hertford College, Oxford. He studied medicine at Oxford, and St Thomas' Hospital, London. He was awarded his degree in 1916. He joined the RAMC and was posted to East Africa as the medical officer to the 3rd King's African Rifles, with the rank of Captain. He was awarded the Military Cross for his services in East Africa. He returned to St Thomas' Hospital as House Surgeon, and was appointed to the Military Orthopaedic Hospital, Hammersmith, in 1919. He was appointed Senior Medical Officer at Shepherd's Bush Orthopaedic Hospital, in 1920. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, in 1921, and was elected honorary assistant surgeon to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. He returned to St Thomas' Hospital as Chief Assistant to the Orthopaedic Department in 1923, and became Assistant Surgeon of the Department, in 1926. Perkins was recalled to the Army in 1939, where he served in the Casualty Clearing Stations in France until 1940, when he was invalided because of serious illness. He began to write his book on fractures at this time and after his convalescence he worked at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton. He became President of the British Orthopaedic Association. He returned to St Thomas' in 1946, and became head of the Orthopaedic Department, a role he continued even when he was appointed Professor of Surgery in the London University at St Thomas' Hospital, in 1948 until 1954. He retired as head of the Orthopaedic department of St Thomas's in 1957. He died in 1979.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of George Perkins, 1908-1980, comprising 2 volumes containing correspondence, testimonials, and certificates relating to his education and professional life, 1908-1957; a folder containing photographs, a typescript, and correspondence relating to the Inaugural George Perkins Lecture, delivered by Professor Maurice Muller, (Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Bern), at St Thomas' Hospital on 1 Oct 1971; a reprint of The Hugh Owen Thomas Memorial Lecture 1946, delivered in the Liverpool Medical Institution by George Perkins on 11 Jul 1946; an envelope containing 11 reviews for the book Orthopaedics, written by Perkins, 1961, and a review for the book Fractures and Dislocation, written by Perkins, 1953; a volume containing a photograph of Perkins, signed by his former colleagues and friends; 3 photographs of Perkins, 1927-1973; obituaries and letters of condolence addressed to George Perkins daughter, Elizabeth, 1980.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

By written appointment only.

Conditions governing reproduction:

At the discretion of the librarian.

Finding aids:

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The provenance of this material is not known, but it was probably donated by a family member.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Several of George Perkins books are held by the College Library. See the online library catalogue.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Source: St Thomas's Hospital Gazette, Volume 78, Number 1, Spring 1980 pp.28-29; The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Volume 62-B, Number 2, May 1980, pp. 248-250; and British Medical Journal, 5 Jan 1980.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Book reviews | Literary criticism | Literature
Certificates | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Obituaries | Documents | Information sources
Photographs | Visual materials
Surgery | Medical sciences
Testimonials | Documents | Information sources

Personal names
Bristow | Walter Rowley | 1882-1947 | surgeon
Perkins | George | 1892-1979 | orthopaedic surgeon

Corporate names
Liverpool Medical Institution
St Thomas' Hospital | London

Places
Liverpool | Lancashire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Oxford | Oxfordshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe