Papers of Albert Carless
TitlePapers of Albert Carless
ReferenceMS0064
Level of descriptionfonds
Date1881-1936
Admin./ biographical historyAlbert Carless was a General Surgeon, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1888). He was educated at Carrington Lodge, Richmond, at King’s College School, London, and at King’s College, where he won the senior scholarship in 1885, and at King’s College Hospital. Here and at the University of London he qualified for the gold medal in surgery at the B.S. examination in 1887, and at the M.S. examination in the following year. In the King’s College medical faculty, he won the gold medal and prize for botany, the junior scholarship, the second-year scholarship, the senior medical scholarship, the Warneford prize and the Leathes prize. He was appointed House Surgeon to King’s College Hospital in 1888, and three years later he became Sambrooke Surgical Registrar. He was elected Assistant Surgeon to the hospital in 1889, where he served under Joseph Lister; became surgeon in 1898, and from 1902 to 1918 was professor of surgery at King’s College in succession to William Watson Cheyne. He accepted a commission as Major a la Suite in the territorial service on 16th November 1912, and was gazetted colonel A.M.S. on 22nd September 1917, serving at first as Surgeon to the 4th London General Hospital, and later as Consulting Surgeon to the Eastern Command; for his services he was created C.B.E. in 1919. He retired from surgical work on demobilization in 1919, resigned his hospital appointments, and devoted himself during the rest of his life to philanthropic work. From June 1919 until 1926 he acted as Honorary Medical Director at Dr Barnardo’s Homes, and subsequently lived at Crieff, Perthshire.
For more information on Carless' 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=albert+carless&te=ASSET.
For more information on Carless' 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=albert+carless&te=ASSET.
Scope and ContentThe collection contains the papers of Albert Carless, and includes letters, notes, drafts of speeches and articles, photographs, certificates and publications.
Extent2 boxes
LanguageEnglish
System of arrangementThe papers were found in no particular order. In a few cases, Carless had separated some letters and papers and placed them in individual envelopes. These natural subdivisions are evident in sub-fonds numbers 4 and 5. The cataloguer imposed an order on the rest of the material.
The collection is divided into 9 sub-fonds. These are the following: 1) Education; 2) Draft speeches; 3) Notes; 4) Letters and Papers referring to work during the war; 5) Barnardo's; 6) Letters and Testimonials; 7) Personal; 8) Publications and Reprints by Albert Carless; 9) Publications and Reprints by other authors.
Conditions governing accessThis collection is available to everyone for research. It can be consulted in our Research Room at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 38-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PE. It is essential to book in advance so we can ensure material is available. Please email archives@rcseng.ac.uk to book a Research Room appointment.
Conditions governing reproductionCopies of material in the archives can be supplied for private study purposes only, depending on the condition of the documents. Some items within this collection may remain within copyright under the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988; it is the responsibility of users to obtain the copyright holder's permission for reproduction of copyright material for purposes other than research or private study. Permission to publish material, in print or online, must be sought in advance from the Royal College of Surgeons of England and, where appropriate, the copyright holder. Please email archives@rcseng.ac.uk in the first instance.
Persons keyword Albert Carless, 1863-1936, surgeon
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