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Identity statement
- Reference code(s)
- GB0100 TH/PP14
- Title
- CHIESMAN, Sir Walter Eric (1900-1973)
- Date(s)
- [1920s]-1963
- Level of description
- Collection (fonds)
- Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk, or size)
- 3 files
Context
- Name of creator(s)
Chiesman, Sir, Walter Eric, 1900-1973, Physician
- Administrative / Biographical history
Walter Chiesman was born in July 1900. He was educated at Whitgift School, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and St Thomas's Hospital, London, graduating MA, MB BCh. He obtained MD from Cambridge, 1934, and was elected FRCP 1947. Chiesman was appointed Resident Assistant Physician, 1928; and 1st Assistant, Medical Unit, 1929-1933, St Thomas's Hospital; Medical Adviser to Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), 1933-1945; Honorary Physician to the King 1950, and Honorary Physician to the Queen 1951. He also held the position of Medical Officer, Ministry of Supply (Chemical Defence), 1944, and Treasury Medical Adviser, 1945-1965. He was awarded CB 1955, and knighted in 1960. In 1930 he married Feodora Rennie. He died on 13 August 1973.
- Archival history
Some papers appear to have been deposited in the St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library, by the family.
- Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Transferred from St Thomas' Hospital Medical School Library in 2002
Content & structure
- Scope and content
Papers of Sir Walter Eric Chiesman comprising typescript copies of his theses, including his MD thesis 'The application of Rehberg's filtration re-absorption theory of renal secretion in the study of the excretion of water urea etc by the human kidney in health and disease', and 'The treatment of tuberculous pleural effusion by aspiration and replacement with air' [1920s]; file of papers by Chiesman, including off prints of published articles and typescript lectures relating to toxic effects of ethylene chlorohydrin, haemorrhage from peptic ulcers, diagnosis and treatment of lesions due to vesicents, industrial medicine, absenteeism, 1932-1963; 'Wartime papers' file containing mainly papers and lectures of Dr W E Chiesman, Medical Officer of the Ministry of Supply Factories, including papers relating to medical aspects of chemical warfare including health of factory workers and descriptions of individual cases, accident statistics, treatment of toxic burns, first aid in event of gas attack, decontamination of clothing, 1938-1943.
- System of arrangement
Arranged as described in the Scope and Content
Conditions of access & use
- Conditions governing access
- Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive and Corporate Record Services.
- Language/scripts of material
English
- Finding aids
This collection level description.
Allied materials
- Existence and location of originals
King's College London College Archives
Description control
- Archivist's Note
Sources: Who's Who 1897-1996 CD-ROM (A & C Black); Compiled by Alison Field
- Rules or conventions
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.
This catalogue is made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License. This catalogue may be updated from time to time in order to reflect additional material and/or new understandings of the material.
- Date(s) of descriptions
January 2004
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Subjects
- Actinomycetales infections
- Anatomy
- Biology
- Chemical warfare
- Diseases
- General pathology and symptoms
- International conflicts
- Kidney
- Kidney diseases
- Military engineering
- Pathology
- Tuberculosis
- Ulcer
- Urinary tract
- Urologic diseases
- War
- Warfare
- Wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- World wars (events)
Personal names
- Chiesman, Sir, Walter Eric, 1900-1973, Physician
Corporate names
- King's College London College Archives
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