Jolly, Hugh Reginald

  • Jolly, Hugh (1918-1986)
Date:
c.1935-1989
Reference:
GC/143
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Biographical material, followed by papers relating to his work at Charing Cross Hospital, 1960-1983; on secondment in Nigeria, 1961-1962; and as a 'media doctor' and popular author.

Publication/Creation

c.1935-1989

Physical description

2 boxes

Acquisition note

These papers were received from Christopher Jolly, Hugh Jolly's son, in September 1992.

Biographical note

Hugh Reginald Jolly, FRCP (1918-1986) was a paediatrician.

An outline of Jolly's career follows:

1942 Qualified in medicine

1940s Worked in London (The West London Hospital, The London Hospital and the North Middlesex Hospital) and with RAMC in Britain and abroad (last posting as dermatologist to the Allied Forces in the Netherlands East Indies)

1948-1951 Various posts, Great Ormond Street Hospital

1951 Resident at the Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, USA

1951-1960 Consultant Paediatrician, Freedom Fields Hospital, Plymouth

1955 Sexual Precocity

1960-1983 Consultant Paediatrician, Charing Cross Hospital

1961-1962 Professor of Child Health, University College, Ibadan, Nigeria

1964 Diseases of Children

1965-1983 Paediatrician in charge at Charing Cross Hospital

1967-1969 Visiting Professor in Child Health, Ghana Medical School

1970s Columnist for The Times

1971 Founded Child Development Centre at Charing Cross Hospital

1973 Commonsense About Babies and Children

1975 Book of Child Care

1978 More Commonsense About Babies and Children

1980 Consultant Paediatrician, British Airways

1983 Retired

1985 The First Five Years

1985 The Grandparents' Handbook

1986 Died

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Accession number

  • 445