Nicholl, Whitlock (1786-1838)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0114 MS0252
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	: Nicholl, Whitlock (1786-1838)
Date(s)	: 1808-1809
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Nicholl | Whitlock | 1786-1838 | physician

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Whitlock Nicholl was born in Treddington, Worcester, in 1786. He grew up with his uncle, the Reverend John Nicholl. He was placed with Mr Bevan in 1802, a medical practitioner at Cowbridge in Glamorganshire. He entered as a pupil at St George's hospital, in 1806. He attended the lectures of Mr Wilson, Dr Hooper, Dr Pearson, Dr John Clarke, and Sir Everard Home. He was appointed house surgeon at the Lock Hospital, in 1808, and admitted as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, in 1809. He returned to Cowbridge and entered into partnership with his former master, Mr Bevan, and then succeeded him as physician on his retirement. He was created Doctor of Medicine by Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 1816, and was admitted an extra Licentiate of the College of Physicians, the same year. He was created Doctor of Medicine by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1817, through the interest of his relation Sir John Nicholl. He had a successful practice in Ludlow. He matriculated from Glasgow in 1825, and attained the M D in 1826. He then moved to London, where he was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians in 1836. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, in 1830. He died in 1838.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Whitlock Nicholl, 1808-1809, comprising a volume of manuscript notes by Nicholl, titled MS Lectures on Surgery given gratuitously to the Pupils of St George's Hospital by Everard Home Esqre, taken in the Winter of 1808-9, by Whitlock Nicholl, Vol. 1, taken at lectures on surgery by Sir Everard Home. Including a biographical account and photograph of Nicholl, written by Charles Hawkins, and a cutting and notes about the poem 'A Country Surgeon'; and a volume of manuscript notes by Nicholl, titled MS Lectures on Surgery given gratuitously to the Pupils of St George's Hospital by Everard Home Esqre, taken in the Winter of 1808, by Whitlock Nicholl, Vol. 2, taken at lectures on surgery by Sir Everard Home.

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.

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Archival Information

Archival history:

The volumes were given to Charles Hawkins (FRCS) by Nicholl in 1829.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated by Charles Hawkins (FRCS) in 1867.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner.
Source: The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London by William Munk, Volume III, 1801-1825. London: 1878

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