The Papers and Case Books of Lord Berkeley Moynihan (1865-1936)
TitleThe Papers and Case Books of Lord Berkeley Moynihan (1865-1936)
ReferenceMS0284
Level of descriptionfonds
Date1893-1936
Admin./ biographical historyBerkeley Moynihan was a Surgeon and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1890). At the College, he was appointed as an examiner in anatomy on the Board of Examiners in Anatomy and Physiology for the Fellowship in 1899. He gave three lectures as Arris and Gale lecturer in 1899 on the anatomy and surgery of the peritoneal fossae, and three lectures in 1900 on the pathology of some of the rarer forms of hernia. In 1920 he gave a single lecture as Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology on the late surgery of gunshot wounds of the chest, and in the same year delivered the Bradshaw lecture on the surgery of diseases of the spleen. He was Hunterian Orator in 1927. He served on the Council of the College from 1912 to 1933 and was elected President for six years in succession from 1926 to 1931.
For more information on Moynihan'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:372413/one?qu=Berkley+Moynihan&te=ASSET.
For more information on Moynihan'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:372413/one?qu=Berkley+Moynihan&te=ASSET.
Scope and ContentThe collection contains case books, records of private operations (with some volumes relating specifically to London patients), press cuttings about Moynihan's work (mainly after his retirement), and diplomas awarded to Moynihan throughout his life.
Extent57 boxes
LanguageEnglish
Conditions governing accessBy appointment only. See College website for contact details of the Archives., Exception to closure: Items 6-15
Conditions governing reproductionNo photocopying permitted
Related objectsMS0301
NotesBiographical information was taken from Moynihan's entry in Plarr's "Lives of the Fellows". Sources used to compile that entry were: "Donald Bateman Berkeley Moynihan, surgeon". London, Macmillan 1940, with portraits; "D.N.B." 1931-1940, Oxford, 1949; "The Times", 8 September 1936, with portrait, 10 September pp.9b and 15e, 11 September pp. 16b and 17e, 14 September p.14e, 15 September p. 17e; "Lancet", 1936, 2, 655, with portrait, a pleasing likeness, and p. 693; "Brit. med. Journal" 1936, 2, 564 with a portrait, and p.953 with appreciation by G. Grey Turner, and 1939, 2, 367; "Univ. Leeds med. Soc. Mag." 1936, 6, 112, with portrait, and 1937, 7, 1-116, Moynihan memorial number, with portraits and bibliography; "Med. Press", 1936, 193, 257 contains a full-length portrait of Moynihan in his presidential robes; "Postgrad. med. Journal" 1936, 12, 397, with portrait as P.R.C.S; "Trans Amer. surg. Assoc." 1936, 54, 441, with portrait as a young man; "Brit. J. Surg." 1936, 24, 1, with a portrait as frontispiece, at p.2 a photograph of Moynihan aged 30, and at p.6 a drawing of the memorial statuette presented to him; "Nature", 1936, 138, 577; "Bull. Amer. Coll. Surg." 1937, 22, 24, eulogies by G. W. Crile and A. B. Kanavel; Hey Groves, the first Moynihan lecture, "Brit. med. J." 1940, 1, 606 and 649; "The birthplace of Lord Moynihan at Malta", with photographs of the house and the commemorative tablet-stone. "Leeds Univ. med. Mag." 1943, 13, 72; information from the Clerk of Christ’s Hospital, and the Secretary of the Corporation of the Royal Naval School, R.N. scholarship fund.
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