WYATT, James Montague (1883-1953) memorial speech

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1538 S35
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	: WYATT, James Montague (1883-1953) memorial speech
Date(s)	: 1978
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 folder
Name of creator(s)	: Rickford | Braithwaite | gynaecologist

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

James Montague Wyatt (1883-1953), MB, BS (London) 1905, FRCS 1910, FRCOG 1929, qualified in 1905 at St Thomas's Hospital, where, after various appointments and service in World War I, he became Obstetric Physician until 1946. He was a Foundation Fellow of the College, served on the Council from 1941-1946 and was Vice President for the next three years (bibliography: Sir John Peel, Lives of the Fellows, pp.387-388). On his death Wyatt left a generous bequest to the College to finance the holding of an annual James Wyatt dinner. The memoir described below was given as a speech at the 1978 dinner.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy of a memorial speech given by Braithwaite Rickford FRCOG commemorating the jubilee year of the death of James Montague Wyatt, with related correspondence between Braithwaite and Sir John Dewhurst, 1978.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: vested in the College.

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:

there is no record of this memoir being donated to or deposited in the Archives and it appears from the contents that the file was removed at some stage from the general file series of the College President, Sir John Dewhurst.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

RCOG Archives holds for financial records relating to the James Wyatt dining fund (Ref: F11/6).

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