IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0126
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: MacLoghlin, Eliza Millard
Date(s): 1905-1928
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): MacLoghlin | Eliza Millard | 1863-1928 | benefactor
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Eliza Millard MacLoghlin was born in 1863. She was a generous benefactor to the College. Her husband was Edward Percy Plantagenet MacLoghlin MRCS (1855-1904), a general practitioner from Lancashire. They were noted as free-thinkers and prominent atheists. After his death, Eliza commissioned a memorial to her husband. The sculptor was Sir Alfred Gilbert, and the sculpture Mors Janua Vitae was completed in 1909. It now stands in the entrance hall at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and contains the cremated remains of both Mr and Mrs MacLoghlin. Eliza MacLoghlin also endowed a scholarship for medical students of the College, and donated the Carrera marble floor in the entrance hall. In later life she suffered mental health problems, and spent the last years of her life in a private mental hospital. She died in 1928.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Eliza Millard MacLoghlin, 1905-1928, comprising a collection of typescript poems by MacLoghlin, titled Sir, What are these? and dedicated to "My Niece, Aileen Millard"; 10 manuscripts of music written by W G Cook, for songs based on MacLoghlin's poetry, c 1927-1928; and 4 cards and letters, c 1905.
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.
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The provenance of this material is not known.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Source: The Victorian Web website at http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/gilbert/22.html and the Royal College of Surgeons website at http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/about_the_college/virtual_tour_of_the_college/ground_floor/main_entrance_html
Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 2008