Zone d'identification
Cote
Heathcote MSS
Titre
Date(s)
- 1922-1933 (Production)
Niveau de description
Collection
Étendue matérielle et support
2500 negatives in 22 albums
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Surgeon and pharmacologist. Born, West Deeping, Lincs 1888. Died, London 1951. Educated at Winchester and New College Oxford; BA, 1911, MA, 1914. Then trained at University College Hospital. He served in the R.A.M.C. and the R.N.V.R. during the 1914-18 war, before returning to Oxford to complete his studies in pharmacology. In 1922 Heathcote was appointed as the first holder of the chair of pharmacology at the University of Cairo, a post he held until 1933. During his time in Egypt he travelled extensively, forming a notable collection of photographs of Egyptian antiquities. On his return to Britain he took up a post at the Welsh National School of Medicine at Cardiff, eventually becoming Professor of Pharmacology, a post he held until his death.
Histoire archivistique
In the possession of the creator until his death in 1951.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Donated by his son Dr A. G. S. Heathcote in 1951.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Negatives of Egyptian antiquities, scenes of daily life, and landscapes.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
Kept as received.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Property of the Griffith Institute. Negatives unavailable for consultation.
Conditions de reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.
Langue des documents
- anglais
Écriture des documents
Notes sur la langue et l'écriture
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Negatives presumed to be nitrate and therefore unstable.
Instruments de recherche
None.
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
These are originals.
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Digital scans have been made of the complete holding.