CAMERON, Hector Charles (1878-1958)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 G/PP1/9
Held at	: King's College London College Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ ›
Full title	: CAMERON, Hector Charles (1878-1958)
Date(s)	: [1959]
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: Cameron | [Hector Charles] | 1878-1958 | physician

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in Glasgow, 17 July 1878, son of Sir Hector Clare Cameron; Educated at Clifton College; University of Glasgow; St John's College, Cambridge (Foundation Scholar in Science); Guy's Hospital (University Scholar); Berlin. MA, Hon. LLD (Glasgow), MA, MD (Cambridge). FRCP (Lond.).
Worked as Demonstrator of Physiology at Guy's Hospital Medical School, and Dean of the Medical and Dental School, 1912-1914, Guy's Hospital, London; Consulting Physician to Department for Diseases of Children, Guy's Hospital; Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Former Lumleian Lecturer RCP (Lond.), 1925; Past President British Paediatric Association and the Sections for Diseases of Children. Royal Society of Medicine and BMA. Died 1 April 1958.
Publications: The Nervous Child, (5th Edn, 1948); Joseph Lister, The Friend of Man, 1949; Sir Joseph Banks, KB, PRS, 1953; The History of Mr Guy's Hospital 1726-1948, 1954; books and papers upon medical subjects.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript notebook containing notes on various topics including the history of Guy's Hospital. Also letter to `T B L[ayton]' from E Clayton Jones, concerning the source of notebook, 4 Feb 1959; and letter from T B Layton, to 'Mr Chairman', 5 Feb 1959, found in front of the volume.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

1 volume

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature on readers' undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive and Corporate Records Services.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

Archival Information

Archival history:

Acquired by Guy's Hospital Medical School Library.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from Guy's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Hector Charles Cameron's correspondence, 1955-1956 (12 items), with W R Dawson, held at the Natural History Museum (Reference: BRN 183482).

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: Historical Manuscripts Commission On-line National Register of Archives; Who's Who 1897-1996 CD-ROM (A & C Black). Compiled by Alison Field.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
February 2003