GB 0114 MS0167 - Rolleston, Sir Humphrey Davy (1862-1944)

10 files

GB 0114 MS0167 c1940 Collection (fonds) 10 files Rolleston , Sir , Humphrey Davy , 1862-1944 , Knight , physician

Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston was born in Oxford, in 1862. He was educated at Maclaren's School at Summerfield, Oxford; Marlborough College; and St John's College, Cambridge. He took 1st class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, parts 1, 1885, and 2, 1886; and was university demonstrator in pathology, anatomy, and physiology. He received his medical training at St Bartholomew's and became assistant physician at St George's, becoming physician in 1898, and eventually emertius physician. After serving as consulting physician for the Imperial Yeomanry, at their hospital at Pretoria, in 1900, he built up a large practice in Upper Brook Street, London. He made his name widely known by editing Allbutt and Rolleston's System of Medicine, 2nd edition, a reference work of enduring value, to which he himself contributed. His Fitzpatrick Lectures, 1933-1934, on the endocrines, were elaborated into an historical study, The endocrine glands, 1936. He was elected the first consultant (for life) to the Army Medical Library at Washington, the central workshop of English-speaking medical scholarship, when he attended as guest of honour at its centenary celebrations, in 1936. He edited The Practitioner, during 1928-1944. He died in 1944.

Donated by Lady Rolleston in 1945.

Papers of Sir Humphrey Davy Rolleston, c 1940, comprising 10 files of manuscript material containing notes for articles on subjects such as the thymus, pineal, pancreas, carotid body, diabetes, and tuberculosis; notes for the review of a volume on the Massachusetts General Hospital, 1939; biographical notes on individuals including Caspar Bartholinus, Edmund Dickinson, and Jonathan Goddard; and a list of the biographical notes sent to the Royal College of Physicians in 1945. The notes are written on recycled correspondence and papers dating from the late 1930s to the early 1940s.

The files have been arranged generally by subject, with some files containing a number of subjects.

By written appointment only.

No photocopying permitted.

English

Compiled by Anya Turner.

Source: The Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Volume 3, page 684

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 Royal College of Physicians Massachusetts General Hospital Rolleston , Sir , Humphrey Davy , 1862-1944 , Knight , physician Dickinson , Edmund , c 1621-1707 , physician Bartholin , Caspar , 1585-1629 , physician and theologist Actinomycetales infections Biochemistry Biochemicals Hormones Diabetes Pathology Diseases Tuberculosis Biology Anatomy Pancreas Literature Literary forms and genres Prose Goddard , Jonathan , 1617-1675 , physician Biographies

Donated by Lady Rolleston in 1945.

Papers of Sir Humphrey Davy Rolleston, c 1940, comprising 10 files of manuscript material containing notes for articles on subjects such as the thymus, pineal, pancreas, carotid body, diabetes, and tuberculosis; notes for the review of a volume on the Massachusetts General Hospital, 1939; biographical notes on individuals including Caspar Bartholinus, Edmund Dickinson, and Jonathan Goddard; and a list of the biographical notes sent to the Royal College of Physicians in 1945. The notes are written on recycled correspondence and papers dating from the late 1930s to the early 1940s.

The files have been arranged generally by subject, with some files containing a number of subjects.

By written appointment only.

No photocopying permitted.

• Engels

• Latijn

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.

• Engels