GB 0114 MS0235 - Clift, William: Autograph letter to Philip Syng Physick

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Presented to Sir Arthur Porritt (PRCS) by Mrs E Hunter Fell, of Itchen Abbas House, Winchester, Hampshire, through the Surgical Sixty Club, in 1963.

GB 0114 MS0235 1835 Collection (fonds) 1 letter Clift , William , 1775-1849 , museum curator and scientific illustrator

William Clift was born in Cornwall in 1775, and was educated locally. He became an apprentice anatomical assistant to the celebrated surgeon John Hunter (1728-1793) in 1792. He was appointed conservator of the Hunterian Museum after Hunter's death. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1823, and was a member of the Society for Animal Chemistry. He died in 1849.

Philip Syng Physick was born in 1768. He was an American physician, who mainly studied in Philadelphia, but was also a pupil of John Hunter whilst in London. He became known as 'The Father of American Surgery.' He died in 1837.

Presented to Sir Arthur Porritt (PRCS) by Mrs E Hunter Fell, of Itchen Abbas House, Winchester, Hampshire, through the Surgical Sixty Club, in 1963.

Presented by Sir Arthur Porritt through Peter Ingram (FRCS), in 1963.

Papers of William Clift, 1835, comprising an autograph letter by William Clift to Philip Syng Physick, 8 May 1835. Relating to cataloguing specimens in the Hunterian Museum.

As outlined in Scope and Content.

By written appointment only.

No photocopying permitted.

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Compiled by Anya Turner.

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.

Sep 2008 Physick , Philip Syng , 1768-1837 , physician Clift , William , 1775-1849 , museum curator and scientific illustrator Museum policy Museum administration Secondary documents Catalogues Hunterian Museum Philadelphia USA North America

Presented by Sir Arthur Porritt through Peter Ingram (FRCS), in 1963.

Papers of William Clift, 1835, comprising an autograph letter by William Clift to Philip Syng Physick, 8 May 1835. Relating to cataloguing specimens in the Hunterian Museum.

As outlined in Scope and Content.

By written appointment only.

No photocopying permitted.

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English

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.

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