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Introduction
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Research files, 1835-1980
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Photographs, 1880s-1936
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Printed material, 1886-1980
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Miscellaneous material, 1884-1984
Abstract: Papers relating to the history of medicine at the University of Oxford collected by Hugh Sinclair, nutritionist |
Biographical history compiled with reference to Sinclair's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography written by Brian B. Lloyd.
Hugh Macdonald Sinclair was born in Edinburgh on 4 February 1910. He was educated at Winchester College and Oriel College, Oxford, where he received a first class honours degree in physiology in 1932. Between 1933 and 1936 Sinclair was in London studying clinical medicine at University College Hospital and lecturing in physiology at University College. He returned to Oxford in 1937 when he was appointed demonstrator and lecturer in biochemistry at the University and a fellow of Magdalen College.
Sinclair established the Oxford Nutrition Survey in 1941 and the International Institute of Human Nutrition in 1972 (renamed the International Human Foundation in 1982). He died on 22 June 1990 and his estate was left to the International Human Foundation which funded the establishment of the Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition at the University of Reading.
The papers comprise correspondence, notes, photographs, drawings and printed material. Included is material relating to Kenneth J. Franklin's article "A short sketch of the history of the Oxford Medical School" which was published in the Annals of Science 1.4 (1936), 431-446. (Franklin was Dean and Acting Dean of the Medical School 1934-1946, and Assistant Director of the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research, 1935-1947.)
Some papers relating to research into the 'plague of Athens' by J.C.F. Poole, of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, and others, have been listed at the end of the catalogue.
Research files are arranged alphabetically, as they were received. The remaining sections are arranged chronologically. A few items have been moved from their original location. This has been noted in the catalogue.
The papers were donated to the Library by the University of Reading in 2012.
All material is available but prospective readers should contact the Library well in advance of an intended visit as the papers are stored offsite.
Hugh Sinclair Archive, Museum of English Rural Life (University of Reading)
Research files relating to Oxford medicine, created by Kenneth J. Franklin and Sinclair, some created by Franklin and continued by Sinclair. Arranged alphabetically, being a mixture of people, places and subjects.
A-Bo Date: 1874-1951 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8049 Extent: 115 leaves Scope and Content: (fols. 1-72) Acland, Henry (Sir), 1874-1896, comprising:
(fols. 73-111) Anatomy, 1891-1892, [1936], comprising:
(fols. 112-15) Botanic Garden and Botany Department, 1951, comprising:
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Br-Bu Date: 1835-1969 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8050 Extent: 292 leaves Scope and Content: (fols 1-225) British Medical Association, 1835-1936, [1960s], mainly relating to the annual meeting of the B.M.A. held in Oxford in July 1936, including:
(fols. 226-292) Burdon-Sanderson, John (Sir), 1891-1905, [1960-1969], comprising:
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C-L Date: 1881-1971 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8051 Extent: 206 leaves Scope and Content: (fols. i-54) Chaplin, Arnold, 1920, comprising:
(fols. 55-61) Church, William (Sir), 1892-1893, comprising letters from Church to Sir John Burdon-Sanderson. (fols. 62-74) Daubeny Buildings and Laboratory, [1882]-1971, comprising:
(fols. 75-101) Dixey, Frederick Augustus, 1892-1936, comprising:
(fols. 102-48) Franklin, Kenneth James, 1936, 1947, comprising:
(fols. 149-206) Lankester, E. Ray (Sir), 1881-1894, comprising:
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M-Os Date: 1891-1955 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8052 Extent: 181 leaves Scope and Content: (fols. 1-119) Medicine, Regius Professor of, 1903-1904, 1941-1942, comprising:
(fols. 120-23) Natural science, 1891-[1902], comprising:
(fols. 124-51) Nuffield (Lord), 1936, 1955, comprising:
(fols. 152-81) Osler, William (Sir), 1905-1952, comprising:
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Ox Date: 1927-1961 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8053 Extent: 252 leaves Scope and Content: (fols. 1-208) Oxford Medical School, 1951-1961, comprising:
(fols. 209-52) Oxford medicine, 1927-1948, comprising:
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P-R Date: 1886-1980 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8054 Extent: 201 leaves Scope and Content: (fols. 1-48) Pathology, 1904-[1923], comprising:
(fols. 49-51) Pharmacology, 1891, comprising:
(fols. 52-185) Physiology, 1886-1976, comprising:
(fols. 186-88) Psychology, [c.1890], 1936, comprising:
(fols. 189-201) Robb-Smith, A. H. T., 1962-1980, comprising:
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Photographs Date: 1880s-1936 Shelfmark: MS. Photogr. c. 502, fols. 11-32 Extent: 18 items Scope and Content: Photographs, many of which were used in Kenneth Franklin's article, "A short sketch of the Oxford Medical School"
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Printed material Date: 1886-1980 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 4074 Extent: 23 items Scope and Content: Booklets, pamphlets and articles relating to medicine in Oxford. Includes:
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'Oxford School Medical Dinners' Date: 1899-1914 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 4075 Extent: i + 57 leaves Scope and Content: Notebook of the organising committee, containing names of committee members, ticket prices, venues, lists of people who have bought tickets, draft seating plans, draft programmes, accounts. Loose items removed to MS. Eng. c. 8055, fols. 1-83. |
Oxford Medical School dinners and miscellaneous
material Date: 1884-1984 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8055 Extent: 101 leaves Scope and Content: (fols. 1-83) Oxford Medical School dinners, loose items, mostly invoices and receipts, with some menus and invitations, all removed from the above volume [MS. Eng. d. 4075], including a few items relating to dinners organised by the Oxford Medical Graduates Club, 1901-1914, 1949-1951, comprising:
(fols. 84-96) papers relating to research into the plague of Athens by J.C.F. Poole [of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology] and others, 1978-1984, comprising:
(fols. 97-101) caricatures of Professor John Scott Burdon-Sanderson and other Oxford medical figures, 1884-1898, comprising:
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