ROY, Donald Whatley (1881-1960)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1538 S45
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	: ROY, Donald Whatley (1881-1960)
Date(s)	: 1897-1948
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Roy | Donald Whatley | 1881-1960 | gynaecologist and Librarian of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Donald Roy was born in Appleton, Roebuck on 22 May 1881. He obtained first-class honours in the natural science tripos from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and went on to qualify at St George's Hospital, London in 1906. He started working in various London hospitals (the General Lying-in Hospital, the Royal Free, St George's and the Samaritan Hospital for Women) prior to World War One. He served first in the Navy then transferred to the Royal Army Medical Corp in 1917; by the end of the War he was working in Northampton War Hospital. He returned to London and was finally appointed to the consulting staff of St George's Hospital, where he remained for the rest of his professional life. A Foundation Fellow of the College, he also served as the College Librarian from 1 October 1937 to 25 January 1941 when he stepped down due to ill health (bibliography: Sir John Peel, Lives of the Fellows, pp 325-326).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Donald Whatley Roy, 1897-1948, and including correspondence, 1898-1948; medical certificates, including one a as a Foundation Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1897-1930; articles and speech, 1930-1938; card announcing results of the III MB Pt 1, 1903; testimonials, 1908-1929; passenger lists of ships on which he was surgeon, 1910; applications, 1916-1934.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

As given in scope and content.

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: A D Roy.

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:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The collection was given to the College by Donald Roy's son, Mr A.D Roy, in 1996.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The College Archives holds records giving details of Roy's time as Librarian of the College (Refs: A2M/3, pp 12, 24, 103, 114, 140, 148, 155, 166), A4/4/9 and T1). The photographs from this collection have been removed to Ref: PH22.

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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