Tubby, Alfred Herbert (1862-1930)

Manuscripts of the first and second editions of Tubby's work on Deformities, mostly author's holograph; and of his memoir of the First World War, "A consulting surgeon in the Near East" (holograph).

Alfred Herbert Tubby was an orthopaedic surgeon who worked at the Westminster, Royal National Orthopaedic and Evelina Hospitals. His work on Deformities became a standard text-book. He became F.R.C.S. in 1887.

During the first world war he was seconded for service as consulting surgeon to the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force with the rank of temporary colonel on the Army Medical Staff, and later to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, serving much of the time at Alexandria. In 1920 he published A Consulting Surgeon in the Near East (London: Christophers, 1920), which described his service during the war.

See Plarr's Lives of the fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England ["Plarr’s lives"], Vol. II, pp. 438, 439.

At Wellcome Collection:

GC/87 comprises typescript diary notes of service in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force 1915, and autobiographical notes.