Priory Medical Society, Hampstead

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1530 D1
Held at	: Royal Free Hospital Archives Centre   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/a?_ref=1530 ›
Full title	: Priory Medical Society, Hampstead
Date(s)	: 1890-1939
Level of description	: Collection (Fonds)
Extent	: 0.5 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Priory Medical Society, Hampstead

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Priory Medical Society was founded in 1890, the first Chairman was Dr Thomas Morton. It was a local medical society with 15 members, all medical practitioners working in the Hampstead area, some members held consultant posts at Hampstead General Hospital and the Children's Hospital, Hampstead. The Society met fortnightly between October and April at members' homes. Each member was required to present a paper, or cases or pathological specimens in each session. The Society's activities were suspended in October 1939, it is not known if it was reformed after the war.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Minute books of the Priory Medical Society, Hampstead, 1890-1902, 1910-1926, 1934-1939, containing accounts of papers, patients or pathological specimens presented by the members, who included Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the eminent forensic pathologist.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Chronological

Conditions governing access:

Researchers wishing to consult the Archives should first contact the Archivist, Royal Free Hospital Archives Centre, 'The Hoo', 17 Lyndhurst Gardens, London NW3 5NU, for an appointment

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish, or to quote from. original material should be submitted to the Archivist.

Finding aids:

List available at the Archives Centre.

Archival Information

Archival history:

These records were donated by Mrs James, the grand-daughter of Dr Morton, who was the first Chairman of the Society.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

The Centre also holds the records of Hampstead General Hospital and the Children's Hospital, Hampstead.

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled Feb 2001, revised by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description ISAD(G), 2nd edition, 1999 and National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Created 20 Feb 2001, revised Dec 2001