Ballance, Sir Charles Alfred (1856-1936)
TitleBallance, Sir Charles Alfred (1856-1936)
ReferenceMS0178
Level of descriptionfonds
Date1896-1935
Admin./ biographical historySir Charles Alfred Ballance was an ENT surgeon and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1882). He was appointed Aural Surgeon to St Thomas’s Hospital, London in April 1888. In December 1900 he became Surgeon to the hospital and held office until April 1919 when he resigned and was appointed Consulting Surgeon. He was elected Surgeon to the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in Queen Square, Bloomsbury, on 17 February 1891, and resigned on 19 May 1908, when he was elected consulting surgeon.
From 1912 to 1926 he was Chief Surgeon to the Metropolitan Police.
At the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Ballance was an Examiner in Anatomy from 1887 to 1891 and a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1900 to 1919. He served on the Council from 1910 to 1926 and was a Vice President in 1920. He was Erasmus Wilson lecturer from 1888 to 1889, when he took as his subject “The pathology of haemorrhage after ligation in continuity”; Bradshaw lecturer in 1919, “On the surgery of the heart”; Vicary lecturer in 1921 on “A glimpse of the surgery of the brain”; Lister memorial lecturer in 1933, “On nerve surgery”, and on this occasion he received the Lister memorial medal for his distinguished contributions to surgical science. He gave the Macewen memorial lecture at Glasgow, “On the surgery of the temporal bone”.
For more information on Ballance'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/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002fSD_ASSET:375978/one?qu=charles+ballance&qf=ARCHIVES_PERSON_NAME%09Personal+Name%09Ballance%2C+Sir+Charles+Alfred%09Ballance%2C+Sir+Charles+Alfred&te=ASSET
From 1912 to 1926 he was Chief Surgeon to the Metropolitan Police.
At the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Ballance was an Examiner in Anatomy from 1887 to 1891 and a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1900 to 1919. He served on the Council from 1910 to 1926 and was a Vice President in 1920. He was Erasmus Wilson lecturer from 1888 to 1889, when he took as his subject “The pathology of haemorrhage after ligation in continuity”; Bradshaw lecturer in 1919, “On the surgery of the heart”; Vicary lecturer in 1921 on “A glimpse of the surgery of the brain”; Lister memorial lecturer in 1933, “On nerve surgery”, and on this occasion he received the Lister memorial medal for his distinguished contributions to surgical science. He gave the Macewen memorial lecture at Glasgow, “On the surgery of the temporal bone”.
For more information on Ballance'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/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002fSD_ASSET:375978/one?qu=charles+ballance&qf=ARCHIVES_PERSON_NAME%09Personal+Name%09Ballance%2C+Sir+Charles+Alfred%09Ballance%2C+Sir+Charles+Alfred&te=ASSET
Scope and ContentThis collection contains notes of experiments carried out by Sir Charles Alfred Ballance, his original drawings and photographs for some publications and papers, and some manuscript and typescript notes of lectures, reports and papers.
Extent3 boxes
LanguageEnglish
System of arrangementThe collection has been arranged into three sub-fonds: 1) Notes of Experiments, 2) Original Drawings for publications and papers, 3) Lectures, reports, notes on surgery.
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Related objectsMS0390
See Sir Charles Alfred Ballance letters in the Autograph Letters Series
See Sir Charles Alfred Ballance letters in the Autograph Letters Series
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