Receipt for a body for dissection (Photocopy)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0114 MS0236
Held at	: Royal College of Surgeons of England   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums-and-archives/archives/ ›
Full title	: Receipt for a body for dissection (Photocopy)
Date(s)	: 1814-1965
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 letter
Name of creator(s)	: Belfour | Edmund | 1790-1865 | Secretary of the Royal College Surgeons of England

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Edmund Belfour was born in 1790. He became secretary to The Royal College of Surgeons of England at age 21, taking over from his father, Okey Belfour. Edmund Belfour held this post for fifty years, and died on in 1865 at his residence in Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to Edmund Belfour, 1814-1965, comprising a photocopy of a receipt signed by Belfour, for the body of Martin Hogan, for dissection by the Royal College of Surgeons, London, 24 Jan 1814.

Access & 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.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented by Kenneth C McGriffie, Admiralty Registrar, in 1965.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner.
Source: Cope, Zachary, The History of The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1959.

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