Abstract: Letters to his parents from Uganda and Tanzania |
Peter Cecil Bewes was born in 1932 in Kenya, the son of Rev. T.F.C. Bewes, the Africa Secretary of the Church Missionary Society, and his wife, Sylvia. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He qualified as a surgeon in 1963 and worked as a registrar in surgery in Eastbourne and London, before moving to Africa in 1968. He combined two roles as a senior registrar in surgery at Mulago Hospital, and a lecturer in surgery at Makerere University, both in Kampala, Uganda, 1968-72. He moved to Tanzania in 1973 as consultant surgeon at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, returning to the UK in 1979, where he worked as consultant surgeon at Birmingham Accident Hospital until its closure in 1993.
Letters to his parents describing his work as a surgeon and lecturer in Uganda, 1968-72, and later in Tanzania, 1973-9.
Letters from Uganda were donated to the library by Peter Bewes, 31 Jan. 1994. Letters from Tanzania were donated to the library by Peter Bewes, 5 Feb. 1994 and July 1994.
Letters Date: 1968-79 Shelfmark: MS. Afr. s. 2497 Extent: 137 leaves Scope and Content: Comprises:
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