WHITE, Barbara (1907-1987)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP58
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	: WHITE, Barbara (1907-1987)
Date(s)	: Created 1926-1987
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box or 0.01m3
Name of creator(s)	: White | Barbara | 1907-1987 | medical librarian

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 17 May 1907; BSc General, Chemistry, Botany and Physiology, King's College London, 1926-1929; member of King's College London Women's Boating Club; undertook research work on possible uses of seaweed, 1940-1945; after the war helped build up the research department of the Central Middlesex Hospital with Sir Francis Avery Jones, Physician at the Gastroenterological Department at the Hospital, and established a library of medical papers, supported by grants from the Medical Research Council; Librarian of the Gastroenterology Unit at the Hospital; retired 1972; died 1987.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

King's College London Calendar 1926-1927; one tie and two badges with initials 'K.C.L.W.B.C.', probably for rowing, 1927-1928; newspaper cutting photograph of a rowing cox [White]; University of London 'Programme of Presentation Day', 14 May 1930; retirement card with signatures; 'The emergence of gastroenterology', the Harveian Oration delivered by Sir Francis Avery Jones, retired Consulting Physician at the Gastroenterological Department, Central Middlesex Hospital, 1980; Postgraduate Medical Journal, 'Festschrift for Sir Francis Avery Jones: Fifty years of medical practice, 1934-1984', 1984; letters concerning bequests, including a letter from the Hardy Plant Society requesting White's commemoration, 1987; obituary by Avery Jones.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

1 box

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College, London.

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Collection level description.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by Keith W Allen, Visiting Professor, School of Engineering, Oxford Brookes University, December 1999.

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 2000