NABARRO, Alan (1914-1977)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0113 MS-NABAA
Held at	: Royal College of Physicians   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/archive-and-historical-library-collections ›
Full title	: NABARRO, Alan (1914-1977)
Date(s)	: 1914 - 2009
Level of description	: fonds
Extent	: 3 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Nabarro | Alan | 1914-1977 | diabetes campaigner

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Alan David Nunes Nabarro was born in Cricklewood on 10 November 1914. He was diagnosed with diabetes in 1921, and was one of the first diabetics in the UK to be treated with insulin from 1923. As a child, and throughout his life, Alan took an active interest in his condition, corresponding with his doctor and diabetes specialists around the world, collecting literature on the subject, creating suitable recipe and diet sheets, and later becoming an active member of the British Diabetic Association, writing and speaking about diabetes, and working to improve the lives of diabetics globally. He was also involved in charity work, particularly youth work with the Victoria Boys Club in Norwood. In 1968, Alan received an OBE in recognition of his various charitable work. On 21 March 1944, Alan married Vera Ruth Kadish, with whom he had two children, Eve and Daniel. Alan worked at his father's firm of solicitors, Nabarro Nathanson, from about 1933 to 1975, at which time he was a senior partner. In February 1977 he sufferred a stroke and died on 22 March 1977. The Alan Nabarro Medal is named in his honour and is awarded by Diabetes UK to people who have lived with diabetes for 50 years.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Personal papers of Alan Nabarro and his family, particularly those papers relating to Alan's experiences of living with diabetes and his diabetes-related work, as well as literature and ephemera collected by Alan and his family on the subject of diabetes.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Catalogued according to in-house standards based on ISAD(G)

Conditions governing access:

Open access

Conditions governing reproduction:

All requests should be referred to the Archivist

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

The material was collected and maintained initially by Alan's parents Joseph and Rosetta Nabarro, then by Alan himself, and subsequently by his widow, Vera. Vera had the collection listed by a private indexer, Ian D Crane, in 1999. Ian produced a detailed list of the majority of the collection, arranged in strict chronolgical order, and assigned 175 item numbers to the collection; his item numbers have been retained as former numbers in the current catalogue and some of the items are physically labelled with their former numbers in parentheses. Vera died in 2015, and the collection was donated to the Royal College of Physicians by her children, Eve Bloom and Daniel Nabarro, in April 2016.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Eve Bloom and Daniel Nabarro

Allied Materials

Related material:

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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:
2016