Midwifery Certificates

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1538 S52
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	: Midwifery Certificates
Date(s)	: 1757-1892
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: Two outsize folders
Name of creator(s)	: Smellie | William | 1697-1753 | physician and obstetrician Obstetrical Society of London

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The series comprises midwifery certificates awarded in the C18 and C19.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Midwifery certificates donated to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, comprising certificate of competence in midwifery presented to John Harvey, signed by William Smellie M D obstetrician, on 1 Dec 1757 (S52/1); certificate in midwifery awarded to Esther Lavinia Potter by the Obstetrical Society of London on 24 Oct 1888 (S52/2); certificate in midwifery awarded to Isabella Board by the Obstetrical Society of London in 1892 (S52/3).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in order as given in scope and content

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Out of copyright. S52/3 is too fragile to be copied.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

S52/1: found in the attic of a house in Carlisle and presented to the RCOG by Dr Josephine Williamson, date unknownS52/2: persented to the College Library by N Hamilton of Messrs Geering and Colyer estate agents, via K Cooper FRCOG, in 1987S52/3: presented to the RCOG by Dr G O Barber in 1958.

Immediate source of acquisition:

All items passed to the Archives from other College departments at an unknown date.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The College Librarian's correspondence, 1987, re S52/2 is at B6/4. Library correspondence, 1968, re William Smellie, is at B6/5. A copy of an advertisement in the Daily Advertiser, 1746, for a series of lectures in midwifery by Smellie is at s22. A portrait photograph of Smellie is at PH21/2. A printed announcement of a meeting of the Ostetrical Society of London, 1866, is at S16.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
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:
20 June 2001