Adeney, George Cuthbert (1879-1958)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0114 MS0045 |
Held at | : Royal College of Surgeons of England Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums-and-archives/archives/ › |
Full title | : Adeney, George Cuthbert (1879-1958) |
Date(s) | : 1902-1957 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 12 volumes and 58 letters |
Name of creator(s) | : Adeney | George Cuthbert | 1879-1958 | surgeon |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
George Cuthbert Adeney was born in 1879. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St Thomas' Hospital, where he was house physician and clinical assistant in the throat department. He obtained MRCS in 1903, and FRCS in 1911. During World War One he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps with the rank of Major. He became medical officer for the Ministry of Health in c 1928. Subsequently he was regional medical officer for the Ministry at Norwich. He was also a member of the Medical Society for Individual (Alderian) Psychology. He died in 1958.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of George Cuthbert Adeney, 1902-1957, comprising diaries, 1939-1957; letters to Adeney's sister Gladys, 1902-1920; scrapbooks, notebooks and typescript notes, 1913-1950s.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
By written appointment with the Deputy Librarian. Please contact Tina Craig.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No photocopying permitted.
Finding aids:
Additional manuscripts catalogue.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The diaries and correspondence were donated by Mrs Adeney in 1973. The accession record does not note the scrapbooks and notebooks within this donation. Their provenance is unknown.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner.
Source: Lives of the Fellows, 1952-1964 page 3
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
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