Grey Turner, Elston (1916-1984)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 GC/96
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Grey Turner, Elston (1916-1984)
Date(s)	: 1942-1975
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Turner | Elston Grey- | 1916-1984 | doctor
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1916; qualified in medicine, 1942; regimental Medical Officer to the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards, 1942-1945; joined the British Medical Association as an Assistant Secretary, 1948; Under-Secretary BMA, 1960; Deputy Secretary BMA, 1964; Secretary, 1976-1979; Vice-President BMA, 1982; joint author of the second volume (1932-1981) of the official history of the BMA. Further details can be found in the obituaries in the British Medical Journal and the Lancet.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Diary of Elston Grey-Turner's Royal Army Medical Corps service 1942-1945; BMA correspondence, 1948-1956, 1974; lectures and articles, 1949-1975.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

1 item - diary of RAMC service; two series: BMA papers and lectures.

Conditions governing access:

Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Wellcome Library online catalogue.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

These papers were received from Nigel Grey Turner, Elston Grey-Turner's son, on his mother's behalf, in September 1986.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Papers of his father Sir George Grey Turner are held as PP/GGT and at various locations in the Western Manuscripts sequence.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled from Wellcome Library online catalogue by Barbara Ball.

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:
September 2008.