Dr Brian Gough (1909-1999), Birmingham GP and anaesthetist

Personal, professional and patient correspondence, including material about local institutions with which he was involved, and on his interests in medical history. These papers were received in three small box files and in no particular order. They have therefore been sorted into sections reflecting the different aspects of Dr Gough's life and career.

1920s-1990s

2 boxes

Transferred to the library at Wellcome Collection by Birmingham University Archives, March 2007

[Wilfred] Brian Gough was born in 1909; in 1932 he obtained his MB and ChB at Birmingham and also passed MRCS and LRCP. He spent his career in Birmingham, as a general practitioner and also Anaesthetist to the Solihull Hospital and the Birmingham and Midlands Hospital for Women. He was a Fellow of the BMA and of the Royal Society of Medicine, and President of the Birmingham Medical Institute. He died in 1999. There is an obituary in the British Medical Journal

In Wellcome: MS.7847 consists of a small collection of medical documents of historical interest collected by Gough.

This collection has been catalogued and is available to library members. Some items have access restrictions which are explained in the item-level catalogue records.

These papers were placed in Birmingham University Archives following Dr Gough's death, possibly by his daughter (see MS.7847, which had been presented by her to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)