MERRIMAN, Samuel (1771-1852)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0113 MS-MERRS
Held at	: Royal College of Physicians   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/archive-and-historical-library-collections ›
Full title	: MERRIMAN, Samuel (1771-1852)
Date(s)	: 1814
Level of description	: fonds
Extent	: 1 item
Name of creator(s)	: Merriman | Samuel | 1771-1852 | physician and accoucheur

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1771; education, the free grammar school, Marlborough and a school in Old Burlington Street, London; medical education mainly under his paternal uncle, also Samuel Merriman, a distinguished obstetrician; qualified, 1800; member of the Society of Apothecaries, 1800; initially practised as an apothecary but began to specialise in midwifery; from 1808 he was physician accoucheur, consulting physician accoucheur, and vice-president at the Westminster Dispensary; employed by the board of St George's, Hanover Square, to attend all difficult births in the parish, 1808; physician accoucheur to the Middlesex and Westminster lying-in hospitals, 1809; lectured on obstetrics at the Middlesex Hospital, 1810-; taught at St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1820-1821; died, 1852.

Publications: Synopsis of the Various Kinds of Difficult Parturition (1814)

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Samuel Merriman's annotated copy of A Synopsis of the various kinds of difficult parturition, 1814.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Single item

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

All requests should be referred to the Archivist.

Finding aids:

Available at the Royal College of Physicians.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Presented to Dr Arthur Voelcker by his friend George L Merriman, Aberdeen, March 25, 1900.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented by Dr A F Voelcker, 1926.

Allied Materials

Related material:

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.

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:
Aug 2008