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Turner, Professor George Grey

Family and Personal Papers

Address book; includes list of published papers

'Notes on various subjects'. Observations, mostly dated and on medical subjects, together with newspaper cuttings, quotations, useful notes and ephemera

2 sketch books with sketches and watercolours by GGT

GGT's personal accounts note-book - incoming credits and outgoings with brief summary of income 1900-1941.  Loose pages - coaching classes fees

Miscellaneous letters and papers from family, friends and colleagues

Letters of congratulations on GGT passing his final examination

Table "Operations under Mr Hume while I was House Surgeon"

Extracts from diary notes Jun-Oct 1923 (4pp); miscellaneous observations and obituary and press cuttings (2pp)

GGT speech notes on occasion of Sir James Berry receiving Hon. Doctor of Civil Laws at Durham University

Correspondence and related papers on GGT's post, awards etc. incl. curriculum vitae

Bound and inscribed farewells of R.V.I. staff on resignation of GGT

Menus and other ephemera, especially, 1906 volume of souvenirs of visit to Canada and United States; 1925 BMA meeting Bath and Interstate Post-graduate of America; 1926 International Society of Surgery, Rome; mounted ephemera relating to Chirurgical Club

<i>Northumberland and Durham Association Bulletin</i> Vol 3 No 8 April 1948 with notes on life of GGT on his becoming their President.Memorial service programmes; memorial greeting from American College of Surgeons. Copy of tribute delivered at memorial service; various obituaries published 1951

Articles and publications relating to Royal Postgraduate Medical School

Reminiscences collected for proposed publication on Grey Turner (to be edited by Zachary Cope), together with some covering letters

Papers relating to GGT [a-e acquired by Prof R Welbourn]

'Recollections of Student Life and Later Days' by C J Bond. A tribute to the memory of the late Sir Victor Horsley FRS, 1939 and 'The Department of Surgery in the Post-graduate Medical School of London', by Ian Aird, with section on GGT [late 1940s]

Certificates (a) 1903 Fellowship of Royal College of Surgeons of England (b) 1939 Admittance to Freedom of Worshipful Society of Apothecaries (c) Hon. Degree of Doctor of Medicine, Charles University, Prague

<i>George Grey Turner</i> by J D Younghusband, publishedfor the Grey Turner Surgical Club

Newspaper cuttings and BMJ articles relating to GGT's career

Newspaper cuttings and BMJ articles relating to GGT's career

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