Kennaway, Sir Ernest
- Kennaway, Sir Ernest, 1881-1958.
- Date:
- 1899-1957
- Reference:
- PP/ELK
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Most of the items in this collection appear to relate to the later years of Sir Ernest's career. The collection chiefly comprises notebooks on medical issues such as substance-related illnesses and occupational diseases (chiefly cancers) plus a little material on religious issues.
Publication/Creation
1899-1957
Physical description
3 boxes
Contributors
Acquisition note
These papers were transferred to the library at Wellcome Collection from the Library of the Institute of Cancer Research, Fulham Road, London, in April 1984.
Biographical note
Sir Ernest Laurence Kennaway (1881-1958) M.A., M.D., D.S.C., F.R.C.P., F.R.S, was Professor of Experimental Pathology at the Royal Cancer Hospital (Royal Marsden Hospital) and Director of the Chester Beatty Institute from 1928 to 1946.
For further biographical details see Who Was Who 1951-1960, obituaries in the British Medical Journal and the Lancet and the volume of Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society for 1958.
Related material
At Wellcome Collection:
See also the papers of Sir Alexander Haddow (PP/HAD).
Ownership note
The items in this collection may have been brought together by Sir Alexander Haddow in the process of preparing his Kennaway Lecture.
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Identifiers
Accession number
- 157