Hargreaves, Edmund, (fl. 1874-1923), General Practitioner, Sheffield, 19th century

Pettitt's Diary for 1879 kept by Edmund Hargraves, a general practitioner in Sheffield. The diary comprises 94 ff as follows: ff 1-8: printed information. f9r: memorandum page, blank. ff 9v-61v: diary section, comprising brief notes of patients attended, papers read and heard and other events such as a miscarriage suffered by "Lizzie", presumably his wife, on 15 January or the arrest and trial of the cat-burglar Charles Peace (1832-1879) throughout that month; 2 pages per week. f.62r: memorandum page with address of M.K. Hargreaves. ff. 62-63r: memorandum pages, blank. ff. 63v-75r: memorandum page, giving monthly cash accounts. f. 75v: memorandum page, blank. ff. 76-94: printed information and advertisements, paginated [17]-[56] and thus following on from ff. 1-8. Inside rear cover is an autograph letter (MS. 7520.2) from Edmund Hargreaves' grandson Dr. J.E. Hargreaves, of Matamata (New Zealand), giving some information about Hargreaves.

1879, plus autograph letter, 1963

1 volume

Presented to the Wellcome Institute Library by the Royal College of General Practitioners, October 1997. Originally presented to the Royal College by Edmund Hargreaves' grandson Dr. J.E. Hargreaves of New Zealand.

Hargreaves had graduated MB from Glasgow University in 1874 and would take his MD from the same university in 1885. He spent his entire career in Sheffield, becoming a JP there, and last appears in the Medical Directory for 1923. His son and grandson followed him into the medical profession.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts