Level of Description: Fonds

Extent and Medium of the unit of description: 0.04 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Cameron, Sir Hector Clare (1843-1928), surgeon

Administrative/Biographical History
Sir Hector Cameron studied surgery under Joseph Lister (1827-1912) at Glasgow and later became his house surgeon and ultimately his assistant. He was appointed visiting surgeon to the Royal Infirmary of Glasgow in 1873 and in 1881 became visiting surgeon to the Western Infirmary. He became Professor of Clinical Surgery at Glasgow University in 1900. During the First World War, Sir Hector was a Commissioner of the British Red Cross Society for the Western District of Scotland. He became a Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1878 and was elected President in 1897. He was knighted in 1900, the first President of the Faculty to be knighted while in office. He died in 1928.

Joshua Ferguson was Resident under Sir Hector Cameron at the Western Infirmary from 1895 to 1896. He was the author of Sir Hector’s obituary notice in the Glasgow Medical Journal.

For obituaries of Sir Hector Clare Cameron, see the British Medical Journal 1928 (Volume 2) and the Glasgow Medical Journal, 1928 (Volume 110).

Scope and content
Letters to Joshua Ferguson, 1910-1927; menu for the dinner held to mark Sir Hector Cameron’s retirement from the Clinical Chair at Glasgow University, 1910; Booklet entitled Reminiscences of Lister by Sir Hector; typescript copy of ‘Joseph Lister and the Evolution of the Treatment of Wounds’ by Joshua Ferguson [1927]; List of surviving pupils of Joseph Lister by Sir Hector, 1927.

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Identification of copyright holders of unpublished material is often difficult.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 at 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