Holden, Henry (1662-1710)

Common-place book by Henry Holden (MS.2863), plus notes by A.W.J. Haggis of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (MS.8956) summarising the volume and comprising a contents list and some transcriptions.

In the note on the first leaf of MS.2863 Henry Holden M.D. is described as having been one of the Senior Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford. He obtained his M.D. in 1700, lived at Erdington, and was buried at Aston Church, Birmingham.

A.W.J. Haggis was employed by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and carried out historical research on a number of topics, including work specifically for Henry Wellcome. In 1939-1944 he was commissioned by the Wellcome Trust to write "The Life and Work of Sir Henry Wellcome" (this remains unpublished although copies can be found in the Wellcome Archive); also, an Oxford D.Phil. thesis on "An historical survey of English ecclesiastical and secular medical licensing systems between the years 1512 and 1858" was left unfinished at his death.

At Wellcome Collection:

Further material by A.W.J. Haggis on medical history is held as MSS.5328-5355, 8280-8282, 8285-8287 & 8662-8663.