Garnham, Professor Percy Cyril Claude

This collection consists mainly of material relating to Professor Garnham's career, with a little material of personal and biographical interest in Section A, and includes notebooks, correspondence, photographs etc. relating to his career in the Colonial Medical Services in Kenya, 1925-1947, and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1947-1968.

The papers fall into 3 groups: notebooks (Section B), subject files (Section C), and correspondence with individuals and organisations (Section D). This distinction is not altogether clearcut, for example there are letters inserted into some of the notebooks, and in some cases correspondence with individuals arranged in alphabetical series overlaps in the matter under discussion with the subject files. To assist in the use of the collection, therefore, an index of correspondents has been compiled. As in most cases Professor Garnham seems to have kept a draft or a carbon of letters out, addressees as well as senders have been indexed; also the addressees and writers of letters which were sent to Professor Garnham as enclosures or copies for reference.

The material is predominantly in English.

An outline of Professor Garnham's career follows (for further details see Who's Who):

1901 Born London

1923 Member Royal College of Surgeons; Licentiate Royal College of Physicians; Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (St Bartholomew's)

1924 Married Esther Long Price. Diploma in Public Health

1925-1947 Colonial Medical Services: Colony and Protectorate of Kenya

1928 Doctor of Medicine (London) with Gold Medal

1931 Dipl. de Med. Malariol., Paris

1947-1968 Department of Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and

Tropical Medicine

1952 Became Head of Department of Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and

Tropical Medicine

1964 Companion Order of St Michael and St George; Fellow Royal Society

1966 Published Malaria Parasites

1968 Heath Clark Lecturer, University of London

Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College Field Station, Ashurst Lodge, Ascot, Berkshire

1970 Published Progress in Parasitology

1994 Died

Garnham's scientific achievements include the discovery of the liver stages of the malaria parasite and the elucidation of the full life cycle, as well as the fine structure, of many species of malaria parasites. He was involved in the eradication of onchocerciasis from Kenya, and did research into many parasitic infections, including piroplasmosis, also relapsing fever, mosquitoes, and virus diseases.

Parasitological topics: A Presentation volume to P C C Garnham FRS on the occasion of his 80th Birthday 1981 (Society of Protozoologists, special publication no 1, undated), contains further biographical details and reminiscences by colleagues and pupils, as well as a bibliography of Professor Garnham's published works.

The following is an interim description of material that has been acquired since this collection was catalogued. This description may change when cataloguing takes place in future:

4 boxes received March 2011 (acc. 1804), consisting of: additional papers, including notebooks from his early career, material on leishmaniasis and malaria, diaries and correspondence.