GB 0114 MS0245 - Cooper, William White (1816-1886)

2 volumes

GB 0114 MS0245 1838-1839 Collection (fonds) 2 volumes Cooper , William White , 1816-1886 , surgeon and oculist

William White Cooper was born in Holt, Wiltshire, in 1816. He studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital from 1834, and became a private pupil of surgeon Edward Stanley. Cooper took notes of Sir Richard Owen's lectures on comparative anatomy given at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, in 1838-1839. Owen was impressed and awarded Cooper a prize. The notes were later published as Lectures in the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals (1843). Cooper received the MRCS in 1838, and the FRCS in 1845. He was one of the original staff of the North London Eye Institution. Subsequently he became Ophthalmic Surgeon to St Mary's Hospital Paddington. He was appointed Surgeon-Oculist in Ordinary to Queen Victoria in 1859. He died in 1886, before his imminent knighthood.

The volumes are stamped as forming part of the Owen collection of papers, but the provenance of the volumes is not recorded.

Papers of William White Cooper, 1838-1839, comprising a volume of manuscript notes by Cooper, titled of Lectures on Comparative Anatomy by Richard Owen Esqre, FRS, Hunterian Professor etc at the Royal College of Surgeons in London delivered AD 1838. Written by Wm W. Cooper from notes taken during the delivery of the Lectures, and revised and corrected by Mr. Owen.; and a volume of manuscript notes by Cooper, titled Lectures on Comparative Anatomy delivered in the Theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons in London by Richard Owen Esqre FRS, Hunterian Professor during the months May and June, 1839. From notes taken during their delivery by Wm W. Cooper and corrected by Mr. Owen.

The volumes are arranged in chronological order.

By written appointment only.

No photocopying permitted.

English

Papers of Richard Owen. (MS0025)

Compiled by Anya Turner.

Source: Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of England, Vol 1 A-MCD. (1930); and the Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
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 Owen , Sir , Richard , 1804-1892 , Knight , comparative anatomist and palaeontologist Cooper , William White , 1816-1886 , surgeon and oculist Lectures (teaching method) Teaching methods Biology Anatomy Royal College of Surgeons of England

The volumes are stamped as forming part of the Owen collection of papers, but the provenance of the volumes is not recorded.

Papers of William White Cooper, 1838-1839, comprising a volume of manuscript notes by Cooper, titled of Lectures on Comparative Anatomy by Richard Owen Esqre, FRS, Hunterian Professor etc at the Royal College of Surgeons in London delivered AD 1838. Written by Wm W. Cooper from notes taken during the delivery of the Lectures, and revised and corrected by Mr. Owen.; and a volume of manuscript notes by Cooper, titled Lectures on Comparative Anatomy delivered in the Theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons in London by Richard Owen Esqre FRS, Hunterian Professor during the months May and June, 1839. From notes taken during their delivery by Wm W. Cooper and corrected by Mr. Owen.

The volumes are arranged in chronological order.

By written appointment only.

No photocopying permitted.

• anglais

• latin

English

Papers of Richard Owen. (MS0025)

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.

• anglais