Grimmer, George Kerr

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0114 MS0096
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	: Grimmer, George Kerr
Date(s)	: [1900]
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: Grimmer | George Kerr | fl 1887-1942 | surgeon

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

George Kerr Grimmer studied his BA in New Brunswick, Canada in 1887, and his MB, CM at Edinburgh in 1892. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh in 1900. He was a Junior Demonstrator of Anatomy and an Assistant Demonstrator of Practical Physiology, at Edinburgh University. He was a member of the Edinburgh Medical and Chirurgical Society. He was Clinical Assistant in the Ear and Throat department of the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, and the Medical Officer for the Health Service at Queensferry. He died in 1942.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of George Kerr Grimmer, c1900, comprising a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Medicine of Edinburgh University, titled A contribution to the Pathology and Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Otitis Media by George Kerr Grimmer, BA. CANADA, MB and CM, FRCS, Edin. Including photographs.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

By written appointment only.

Conditions governing reproduction:

At the discretion of the Librarian.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the College by Mrs Grimmer in 1943.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner.
Source: Medical Directories, and University of Edinburgh Journal, v12, 1942-1943, p117

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