Level of Description: Fonds

Extent and Medium of the unit of description: 0.24 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Ladies’ Guild of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, Glasgow Branch.

Administrative/Biographical History
The Royal Benevolent Fund Guild was founded in 1909. A Glasgow branch was established in 1911, its purpose to assist in the work of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund in the following ways:
1. Obtaining additional subscriptions and making its operations more widely known.
2. In assisting distressed members of the medical profession, their wives, widows and families who were members of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. Relief was provided by grants of money and clothing and assisting in the education of children.
The Guild amalgamated with the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund in 1972.

Scope and content
Minute books, 1911-1970; cash books, 1911-1950; account books, 1925-1948; bank savings books, 1932-1952; annual returns, 1926-1945; clothing account book, 1939-1957; wool subscription book, 1921-1944; documents relating to social events, 1950-1986.

Conditions governing access
Access to some items may be restricted. Please contact the Archivist at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Conditions governing reproduction
Identification of copyright holders of unpublished material is often difficult. Permission to make any published use of any material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Archivist. We will try to assist in identifying copyright owners but the responsibility for copyright clearance before publication ultimately rests with the reader.

Language/scripts of material
English

Finding aids
Descriptive list available in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Archivist's Note
Compiled by Rachael Third, Scottish Archive Network Project, based on work undertaken by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

Rules or Conventions
ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, International Council on Archives (2nd edition, 2000).

Date(s) of Descriptions
March 2000