MacNalty, Sir Arthur Salusbury (1880-1969)

Arranged as follows:

A. Student notebooks, 1903-1907

B. Historical writings, 1960s

Sir Arthur Salusbury MacNalty, KCB, MD, FRCP, FRCS.

Long career in public health: Medical Inspector HM Local Government Board 1913-1919; Medical Officer and Senior Medical Officer Ministry of Health 1919-1935; Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health 1935-1941. Secretary of the Tuberculosis Committee of the Medical Research Council 1920-1932. Editor in Chief for the Official Medical History of the Last War since 1941. A medical historian, author of several books on history of state medicine, diseases of the central nervous system and Tudor Kings and Queens.

For further details of his career, honours and awards see Who Was Who, the Dictionary of National Biography and obituaries in the Lancet and the British Medical Journal.

There is a brief biographical note at GC/119/B.4.

The volumes in Section A were found among the papers of Dr Edgar Ashworth Underwood (1899-1980), Director of the Wellcome Institute, when his papers came to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (now Archives and Manuscripts, Wellcome Library) after Dr Underwood's death. They were found in a parcel addressed to Dr Underwood from MacNalty.

The historical writings in Section B were received along with a number of other collections from the Wellcome Unit, Oxford, in July 1996. They were presumably received there in 1988 along with a gift of books to the Unit by Sir Arthur MacNalty's daughter. From such items as are dated, Sir Arthur appears to have been working on this during the 1960s.