DOBBIN, Professor Roy Samuel (1873-1939): papers relating to his gifts to the College

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1538 S3
Held at	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/guidelines-research-services/library-services/archives-and-heritage/archives/ ›
Full title	: DOBBIN, Professor Roy Samuel (1873-1939): papers relating to his gifts to the College
Date(s)	: 1931-1946
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 6 folders
Name of creator(s)	: Dobbin | Roy Samuel | 1873-1939 | Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Roy Samuel Dobbin FRCOG (1873-1939) graduated in medicine at Trinity College Dublin. His main interest was pathology, but he also worked in obstetrics and in 1906 was appointed to the Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Cairo. After service during the First World War he returned to Cairo, where he spent the rest of his professional life. He established a library of books and manuscripts relating to midwifery while in Cairo and although the bulk of his collection ultimately went to the Royal College of Physicians, he also made several gifts from his collection to the College Library.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Roy Samuel Dobbin, 1931-1946, relating to his gifts of books and manuscripts to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and its library.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright in individual items varies; refer to College Archivist.

Finding aids:

A general index to the files listed in the catalogue of the Archives of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is maintained in the College Archives; refer to the College Archivist.

Archival Information

Archival history:

this series consists of items presented to the College in 1972, of related papers extracted at some stage from other College records, and of papers produced in connection with the composition of J L Thornton and P C Want, "Roy Samuel Dobbin (1873-1939)", in Proceedings of the XXIII International Congress of the History of Medicine, vol II, London, 1974, pp 1087-1098. It is likely that the series was assembled when this essay was written.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred to the Archives from the College Library in July 2001.

Allied Materials

Related material:

RCOG Archives holds a list of the books presented to the Library, with related papers, 1937-1944 (Ref: B6/3); manuscripts donated by Roy Dobbin which are held in the College Archives (Ref: S6/1-2). A photograph of Dobbin is at PH7/19/1.

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Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: Biographical details of the individuals who have presented material to the College and/or comprise the subject of the records, have been compiled using information in administrative files and, where relevant, consulting Sir John Peel's book The Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1929-1969, Whitefriars Press Ltd, 1975. Compiled by Clare Cowling, Archivist, RCOG.

Rules or conventions:
National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000.

Date(s) of descriptions:
September 2000