McConnell, Robert Ernest (1877-c.1929)

The collection has two main themes: tropical medical work in West Africa, and swamp fever in horses (the latter relating to work carried out in Winnipeg, Canada).

c.1910

2 volumes and 1 file. Manuscript, bound and loose papers.

The material is held in chronological order of composition, so far as that can be established.

Presented by the daughter of John Lancelot Todd, Mrs. Bridget Todd Fialkowski, in 1967

Robert McConnell was born in Montreal in 1877 and graduated M.D. and C.M. at McGill University. He was a member, with Lt.Col. George James Giles (1858-1916) of the Indian Medical Service, of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine's 14th expedition, to the Gold Coast to organise sanitary and anti-malaria measures. He became Medical Officer of Uganda in 1910. In 1928 he appears in the Medical Register as working for an oil company in Colombia; in the 1929 Register he is no longer present, presumably dead.

At Wellcome Collection: MSS.2248-2268, 4790-4807 and 5690-5691, the papers of Joseph Everett Dutton (1877-1905) and John Lancelot Todd (1876-1949), deal with related subjects; McConnell's papers were among those collected by Todd.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

This collection formed part of the collection of papers of John Lancelot Todd (1876-1949).