GB 0114 MS0266 - Crompton, Samuel (1817-1891): Notes on the Blind in Manchester, Salford, and Chorlton Union Workhouses

1 volume and 1 file

GB 0114 MS0266 1841-1845 Collection (fonds) 1 volume and 1 file Crompton , Samuel , 1817-1891 , surgeon

Samuel Crompton was born in Berry Fold House, Over Darwen, Lancashire, in 1817. He was apprenticed to his uncle Samuel Barton, an opthalmic surgeon in Manchester (possibly 1790-1871; MRCS 1811 and FRCS 1844; surgeon to the Manchester Eye Hospital from 1815). He received his medical education partly at the Manchester School of Medicine, Pine Street, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, from 1838. He became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and a Licentiate of the Apothecaries Society in 1839, and later MD St Andrews, in 1862. He returned to Manchester to practice in 1840. He became surgeon to Henshaw's Blind Asylum, Old Trafford, c 1849. He was Consultant Physician at Salford Royal Hospital and Dispensary. He published a treatise entitled Results of an Investigation into the Causes of Blindness, with Practical Suggestions for the Preservation of the Eyesight, in 1849. He retired to Cranleigh, Surrey, in 1881. He died in 1891.

Stamped by the Library in 1923, but not listed in Plarr's Manuscripts or in the Donations Book for that year.

Papers of Samuel Crompton, 1841-1845, comprising a volume containing detailed lists of the blind people in the Manchester, Salford, and Chorlton Union Workhouses, 1841. Including a copy of a report by Crompton, sent to Dr Lyon Mayfair, 10 Dec 1843; and correspondence relating to blindness.

As outlined in Scope and Content.

By written appointment only.

No photocopying permitted.

English

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.

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Stamped by the Library in 1923, but not listed in Plarr's Manuscripts or in the Donations Book for that year.

Papers of Samuel Crompton, 1841-1845, comprising a volume containing detailed lists of the blind people in the Manchester, Salford, and Chorlton Union Workhouses, 1841. Including a copy of a report by Crompton, sent to Dr Lyon Mayfair, 10 Dec 1843; and correspondence relating to blindness.

As outlined in Scope and Content.

By written appointment only.

No photocopying permitted.

• English

• Latin

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.

• English