Findlay, David White (fl.1953-2012): Hunterian Society President

The following is an interim description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place in future:

Papers of David White Findlay, past President of the Hunterian Society. These include:

Papers, lectures, monographs and miscellaneous correspondence,
Papers for Hunterian Society Council and Executive meetings, 1983-1984,
Hunterian Society annual reports and accounts,
List of Hunterian Society members,
Amended and revised laws of the Society, 1983,
Samples of blank headed paper,
Items relating to the history of the Hunterian Society, including a pamphlet reprint of an extract on John Hunter from the Dictionary of National Biography, off-prints of a 150th Anniversary article by E.F.G. Stewart reprinted from The Practitioner April 1969, and annual dinner programmes, 1970s-1980s,
Papers and photographs related to the journal Transactions of the Hunterian Society and allied publications,
Photos, letters and papers regarding the catalogue of Hunterian Society material compiled in 1990 (Richard Palmer and Jean Taylor, The Hunterian Society. A Catalogue of its records and collection relating to John Hunter and the Hunterian tradition (Hunterian Society, 1990)),
Correspondence regarding the deposit of Society archives and artefacts with the Wellcome Trust in 1989-1990.

1970s-1990s

Uncatalogued: 1 transfer box

Deposited with the library at Wellcome Collection's Department of Western Manuscripts (now part of the unified Archives and Manuscripts department) by Dr Findlay, November 1996 (Library accession no.350391). The collection was retrospectively boxlisted in February 2022.

David White Findlay, Fellow and past President of the Hunterian Society, trained at the University of London, passing B.Sc. (Physiol.) in 1953 and MB BS (Middlesex) in 1956.

He also became MRCGP in 1965 and DObs RCOG in 1966.

In the course of his career he held the positions of:
Senior House Officer (Obstetrics), New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton
House Surgeon, ENT, Middlesex Hospital, London
House Physician, Bedford Hospital Group
Medical Officer, Occupational Health Department, St. Albans City Hospital

He was also a member of the Society of Occupational Medicine.

In Wellcome: Hunterian Society's administrative records (MS.8421-MS.8422).

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