IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0387 PP/BLA
Held at: Royal London Hospital
Title: BLANDY, Professor John Peter (b 1927)
Date(s): 1884-1995
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 linear metre
Name of creator(s): Blandy | John Peter | b 1927 | urologist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, Tenby, 1927; educated, Clifton College, Balliol College, Oxford; trained at the London Hospital Medical College; Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1956; House Physician and House Surgeon, London Hospital, 1952; Royal Army Medical Corps, 1952-1953; Surgical Registrar and Lecturer in Surgery, London Hospital, 1956-1960; exchange Fellow, Presbyterian St Luke's Hospital, Chicago, 1960-1961; Senior Lecturer, London Hospital, 1961; Resident Surgical Officer, St Paul's Hospital, 1963-1964; Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons, 1964; member of the Council, Royal College of Surgeons, 1982-1994; President, European Association of Urology, 1986-1988; member of the Council, General Medical Council, 1992-1996.
Publications: include: Tumours of the testicle with H F Hope-Stone and Anthony D Dayan (Heinemann Medical, London, 1970); Transurethral resection (Pitman Medical, London, 1971); Operative urology (Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, 1978); The history of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, 1945-1995 with J P Williams (c1995).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Professor John Blandy, 1884-1995, comprising photographs of London Hospital residents (most identified), 1922-[1931], including photographs of residents in Christmas fancy dress, 1922-1925; photographs of hospital sports teams, 1921-[1960], namely for swimming, rugby, fencing and sailing; group photographs, [1920-1938], including the Medical Society of London, [1938]; photographs of the London Hospital from the North West, [1890s]; souvenir editions of The London Hospital Gazette,1928; The London Hospital Illustrated, 1937-1938; Bicentenary Appeal, 1938;
engravings and prints, [18th-19th centuries] largely of hospitals mainly in London, including Asylum for the Indigent Blind, Westminster Road, Bethlem Hospital, Chelsea Hospital, Greenwich Hospital, Foundling Hospital, Guy's Hospital, The London Hospital, St Bartholomew's Hospital, The Middlesex Hospital, St George's Hospital, St Thomas's Hospital, Royal Hospital, Chelsea, City of London Lying-in Hospital, Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, St Mary's Hospital, Smallpox Hospital, St Pancras;
article on nursing at the London Hospital from Girls Realm Annual, 1909; press cuttings and article relating to St Mary Matfelon Church, Whitechapel, [1898]; copies of photographs showing flying bomb damage to the Hospital's East Wing, 1944;
menus of the Medical Club's student dinners, 1884-1896, and list of members, [1890]; photographs of kidney transplantation and dialysis, [1971]; recording of London Hospital Christmas shows, [1950s] and reminiscences; reminiscences about Sir Hugh Cairns, [1925-1935]; papers, notes and lists of London Hospital staff from 1740; slides of portraits of staff and students, scenes of hospital departments; reminiscences of Charles Heanley, plastic surgeon at the London Hospital, 1995;
photocopy notes by Dr Donald Hunter on the careers of some eminent Physicians and Surgeons associated with the London Hospital, [1950s]; photocopy of Bibliographic Roll of Staff of the London Hospital by William Bulloch, 1937;
correspondence and notes concerning the archives of London Hospital Medical College, including catalogues and correspondence regarding Queen Alexandra's statue, 1978-1985;
list of extant pathological specimens in the Wellcome Museum of Pathology, presented by Sir William Blizard, and copy of pages from the Catalogue of Comparative Anatomy, 1834, including specimens prepared by Blizard, destroyed in 1941;
paintings of the Royal London Hospital, 1990, 1994.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The records are unsorted.
Conditions governing access:
Researchers wishing to consult the archives should first contact the Trust Archivist, the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London, E1 1BB, for an appointment.
Conditions governing reproduction:
A photocopying service is available at the discretion of the Archivist. Photocopies are supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archivist.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
The records are unlisted.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
The engravings and prints were originally given by Mr M Morton of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated by Professor Blandy on various dates from 1986.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
16 mm films made by the London Hospital Film Unit, [1950-1980] of surgical operations by Professor Blandy (reference: LH/MP), held by the Royal London Archives and Museum.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Sources: Who's Who 1897-1996, CD-ROM (A & C Black); Historical Manuscripts Commission On-line National Register of Archives; British Library Public on-line catalogue. Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Date(s) of descriptions: May 2001