Catalogue description Papers of Sir George Makins

This record is held by London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

Details of H01/ST/NC/19
Reference: H01/ST/NC/19
Title: Papers of Sir George Makins
Description:

A small bundle of letters written by Lord Lister, Florence Nightingale and Lord Athlone to Sir George Makins. These letters were donated by a relative, Miss Margaret Warrington, to St Thomas' Hospital, to be deposited with the St Thomas' Hospital archives in the Greater London Record Office, 27 June 1973.
Date: 1886 - 1923
Related material:

For papers relating to Lady Makins see H01/ST/NTS/Y/30/001-007. For letters written by Florence Nightingale to Mrs Fellowes see the Nightingale Correspondence (reference H01/ST/NC/01).
Held by: London Metropolitan Archives: City of London, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Administrative / biographical background:

Sir George Makins (1853-1933) was appointed assistant surgeon to St Thomas' Hospital in 1886 and surgeon in 1898. He married in 1885 Mrs Margaret Augusta Fellowes who had trained as a nurse in the Nightingale School.

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