Papers of William Lawrence
TitlePapers of William Lawrence
ReferenceMS0020
Level of descriptionfonds
Datec1817-1860
Admin./ biographical historySir William Lawrence was an Anatomist, Ophthalmic Surgeon, General Surgeon, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1843). He was one of the original 300 Fellows. In 1824 he was appointed Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London until he resigned in 1865. From 1816 to 1819 he was Professor of Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1829 he succeeded John Abernethy as Lecturer on Surgery and he continued to lecture for the next thirty-three years.
Within the College, Lawrence was a Member of Council from 1825-1867, a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1840-1867, Chairman of the Midwifery Board in 1854, Vice-President four times, and President in 1846 and 1855. He obtained the Jacksonian Prize in 1806 with an essay on “Hernia, and the Best Mode of Treatment”, and he delivered the Hunterian Oration in 1834 and 1846.
For more information on Lawrence's life and career, please visit his profile on Plarr's Lives of the Fellows: https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/results?qu=william+lawrence&te=ASSET
Within the College, Lawrence was a Member of Council from 1825-1867, a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1840-1867, Chairman of the Midwifery Board in 1854, Vice-President four times, and President in 1846 and 1855. He obtained the Jacksonian Prize in 1806 with an essay on “Hernia, and the Best Mode of Treatment”, and he delivered the Hunterian Oration in 1834 and 1846.
For more information on Lawrence's life and career, please visit his profile on Plarr's Lives of the Fellows: https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/results?qu=william+lawrence&te=ASSET
Scope and ContentThis collection contains the papers of Sir William Lawrence, c1817-1860, comprising an account of patients admitted into the London Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye, (cases under Lawrence and Tyrell), 1817-1825; notes of hospital cases; notes used for delivery of lectures in surgery; notes and papers, including addresses made at St Bartholomew's Hospital; notes for lectures in ophthalmic surgery; notes and papers relating to comparative anatomy and physiology; notes of hospital cases; notes on surgical subjects; commonplace book containing case notes on his patients; lecture on ophthalmic surgery; case notes on ophthalmic patients of Lawrence and Travers.
Extent6 boxes
LanguageEnglish
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Persons keyword Sir William Lawrence, 1783-1867, 1st baronet, surgeon, Benjamin Travers, 1783-1858, surgeon, Frederick Tyrell, 1793-1843, surgeon, London Infirmary for Disease of the Eye, London St Bartholomew's Hospital
SubjectAnatomy, Hospitals, Patients, Surgery, Physicians, Physiology, Social welfare
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