IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0265
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: Poole, Thomas James (1809-1881)
Date(s): 1825
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 item
Name of creator(s): Huxtable | Anthony | fl 1797-1825 | surgeon
Clark | Henry | fl 1825 | surgeon
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Thomas James Poole was born in Bridgwater, in 1809. He was apprenticed as a surgeon to Anthony Huxtable and Henry Clark in 1825. He went on to receive his medical education at St Bartholemews hospital, and passed his LSA in 1830, and his MRCS in 1832. Poole practised around the Somerset area and was Medical Officer to the Bridgewater Union, fl 1847. He died in 1881.
Anthony Huxtable MRCS, was a surgeon, apothecary and accouchier apprenticed to John Ball in Williton, Somerset, in 1797. He was practising surgery in Bristol in 1825, and his address given as Union Street, King Square, Bristol in 1826.
Henry Clark was a surgeon, apothecary and accouchier practising in Bristol, in 1825.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Thomas James Poole, 1825, comprising an indenture of the apprenticeship of Poole as a surgeon, apothecary and accouchier to Anthony Huxtable and Henry Clark, 1825.
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:
No photocopying permitted.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Additional manuscripts catalogue.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Mrs Frances E Cotton, granddaughter of Thomas James Poole, donated several items to the library and museum during 1959-1977, including several surgical instruments belonging to Poole.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated by Mrs Frances E Cotton, in 1966.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 2008