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Identity statement
- Reference code(s)
- GB0100 TH/PP40
- Title
- MAKINS, Sir George Henry (1853-1933)
- Date(s)
- 1921
- Level of description
- Collection (fonds)
- Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk, or size)
- 1 letter, 1 artefact
Context
- Name of creator(s)
Makins, Sir, George Henry, 1853-1933, surgeon
- Administrative / Biographical history
George Henry Makins was born 3 November 1853, and was the son of G H Makins. He was educated at Gloucester; St Thomas's Hospital; and Halle, Vienna. During his career he served as Consulting Surgeon South African Field Force, 1899-1900; served European War, 1914-1918; Chairman of Committee of Inquiry into Standard of Comfort and Accommodation in the Hospitals of British Troops in India, 1918; late Under-Secretary, International Medical Congress, London, 1881, and Treasurer, 1913; Lecturer on Surgery and Anatomy, St Thomas's Hospital Medical School; President and Member of the Court of Examiners, Royal College of Surgeons, England; Examiner for the Army and Indian Medical Services; President of the Board of Examiners for the Naval Medical Service, and Member of the Consultative Committee, Queen Alexandra Military Hospital. He was Consulting Surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital and to Evelina Hospital for Sick Children; Hon. Major General, Army Medical Services; Member of Council British Red Cross Society; Treasurer Imperial Cancer Research Fund. He was awarded GCMG, 1918; KCMG, 1915; CB 1900; LLD Cambridge. and Aberdeen; FRCS. In 1885 he married Margaret Augusta nee Kirkland, (died 1931), widow of General Fellowes. Makins died on 2 November 1933. Publications: Surgical Experiences in South Africa 1899-1900, Being mainly a clinical study of the nature and effects of injuries produced by bullets of small calibre Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1901; On Gunshot Injuries to the Blood-vessels, Founded on experience gained in France during the Great War, 1914-1918 . J. Wright & Sons, Bristol, 1919; Gunshot Injuries of the Arteries, etc. (The Bradshaw Lecture.) Henry Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton: London, 1914; and papers on various medical subjects. George Fletcher, was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, 29 Feb 1848, the son of Dr Fletcher and his wife Annie Stodgon. He was educated at Bromsgrove School, and Clare College Cambridge. Awarded MA, MD (Cantab), MRCS, LSA. He worked as a surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital, London. Publications: The Life & Career of Dr. William Palmer of Rugeley, etc , T. Fisher Unwin: London, 1925); The Management of Athletics in Public Schools, a paper , H. K. Lewis: London, 1886. Robert Cory, member of the medical staff of St Thomas's Hospital, 1875-1896. Publications: Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Vaccination , Bailliere, Tindall & Cox: London, 1898; On the Relation of Cow-Pox and Horse-Pox to Smallpox. A thesis ... Reprinted from vol. IX. of the St. Thomas's Hospital Reports , J. E. Adlard: London, 1885
- Archival history
Acquired by St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library
- Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Transferred from St Thomas' Hospital Medical School Library in 2002
Content & structure
- Scope and content
Letter from George Fletcher, surgeon, Highgate, London to Sir George Makins concerning an article by Robert Cory, 3 Nov 1921; and a pair of Makins' spectacles.
- System of arrangement
As outlined in 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
Detailed catalogue
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); British Library Public On-line Catalogue; The Medical Who's Who, Seventh Edition, 1925, Grafton Publishing Co. Ltd, London
- 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
Compiled by Alison Field, January 2004
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Subjects
- History
- History of medicine
Personal names
- Cory, Robert, fl 1875-1896
- Fletcher, George, born 1848, Surgeon
- Makins, Sir, George Henry, 1853-1933, Surgeon
Corporate names
- King's College London College Archives
- St Thomas' Hospital, London
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