IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0004
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: BOWLBY, Sir Anthony Alfred (1855-1929)
Date(s): 1914-1919
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): Bowlby | Sir | Anthony Alfred | 1855-1929 | 1st Baronet | surgeon
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1855; educated at Durham School and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1879; served in South Africa as Senior Surgeon, Portland Hospital, Bloemfontein, 1899-1900; Major, 1908-1914, and Lieutenant Colonel, 1 London General Hospital, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1914-1919; civilian member of Army Medical Advisory Board, [1913]-1918; served in Army Medical Service, 1914-1919; British Red Cross Society representative on the Technical Reserve Advisory Committee on Voluntary Aid, 1914-1920; member of honorary consulting staff of Royal Army Medical College, Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, 1914-1920; served on British Red Cross Society Executive Committee, 1917-1920; honorary Major General, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1920; died, 1929.
Publications include: A descriptive catalogue of the Anatomical and Pathological Museum of St. Bartholomew's Hospital [Edited by F. S. Eve.] (J & A Churchill, London, 1882); Surgical Pathology and Morbid Anatomy (J & A Churchill, London, 1887); Injuries and Diseases of Nerves and their surgical treatment (J & A Churchill, London, 1889; The Surgical Work [of the Portland Hospital in South Africa] with Sir Cuthbert Sidney Wallace (1901); The Hunterian Oration on British Military Surgery in the time of Hunter and in the Great War (Adlard & Son & West Newman: London, 1919).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Sir Anthony Alfred Bowlby, comprising a diary, 1914-1919, recording his experiences as Consulting Surgeon to the British Army.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The records are arranged largely chronologically.
Conditions governing access:
Open to bona fide researchers by written appointment.
Conditions governing reproduction:
At the discretion of the Librarian.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1928) by Victor G Plarr.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The collection was deposited by Franklin A White in 1977
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Related material:
Contemporary Medical Archives Centre, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine holds papers of Bowlby, 1880-1995, including correspondence, reports and photographs relating to the establishment and work of the Portland Hospital, Bloemfontein, South Africa 1899-1901, lectures and articles relating chiefly to the treatment of the war-wounded from 1908-1920, personal correspondence, 1880-1929, correspondence and memorabilia relating to St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1880-1937 and biographical notes by Ursula Bowlby (Bowlby's daughter-in-law), 1995 (Ref: RAMC MS 365 and GC 181). A report to the Director General of Medical Services, 1916, is held by the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Sources: Dictionary of National Biography (Smith, Elder and Co, London, 1895); Historical Manuscripts Commission On-line National Register of Archives; British Library Public On-line Catalogue. Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Date(s) of descriptions: October 2002