GB 1538 S70 - PHILLIPS, Miles Harris (1875-1965): letters to David B Stewart

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Donated to the College Library in [1976] by D B Stewart. There is a letter from Dr Stewart enclosed within the collection explaining his relationship with Dr Phillips.

GB 1538 S70 1939-1950 Collection (fonds) 1 file Phillips , Miles Harris , 1875-1965 , surgeon and historian of obstetrics

Born, 1875; educated, Bristol Grammar School; medical education, University College Bristol, Bristol Royal Infirmary and King's College, London; graduated bachelor of medicine with honours in obstetrics, 1900; ship's surgeon; house surgeon, Leicester Royal Infirmary; Bachelor of Surgery, London, 1903; postgraduate attachment at the London Hospital; Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1903; resident house surgeon, Jessop Hospital for Women (JHW), Sheffield, 1904, honorary medical staff, JHW, 1906; president of the North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society, 1918-1920; senior surgeon, JHW, 1921-1935; part time Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Sheffield, 1921-1935; member of the departmental committee on maternal mortality and morbidity, 1928; president of the obstetrics and gynaecology section of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1937; retired early to rural Carmarthenshire and studied the history of obstetrics, he was also instrumental in restoring the library of William Smellie; died, 1965.

Publications: Historical Review of British Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1800-1950, with J M Munro Kerr and R W Johnstone (Livingstone, 1954)

Donated to the College Library in [1976] by D B Stewart. There is a letter from Dr Stewart enclosed within the collection explaining his relationship with Dr Phillips.

Passed from the College Library's 'Autographed Letters Collection' to the Archives in August 2007.

Personal letters from Dr Miles Harris Phillips to Dr David B Stewart, 1946-1950 and photograph of Phillips with Dr Herbert Spencer and Dr Hansk of Copenhagen, in Holland, 1939. The letters tell about Phillips himself, his interests and enthusiasms and his discoveries in obstetric history.

Chronological

English

No additional finding aids.

Papers of Miles Harris Phillips (ref: S97).

Compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: The Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1929-1969, compiled by Sir John Peel.

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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Passed from the College Library's 'Autographed Letters Collection' to the Archives in August 2007.

Personal letters from Dr Miles Harris Phillips to Dr David B Stewart, 1946-1950 and photograph of Phillips with Dr Herbert Spencer and Dr Hansk of Copenhagen, in Holland, 1939. The letters tell about Phillips himself, his interests and enthusiasms and his discoveries in obstetric history.

Chronological

• anglais

• latin

English

Papers of Miles Harris Phillips (ref: S97).

No additional finding aids.

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