George Carrick Steet papers, 1840-1910

MLMSS 318

fonds

1840-1910

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings

896570

0.45 metres of textual material (3 boxes) - manuscript, printed

Dr. George Carrick Steet was born in Bath, England in 1818. He was educated at University College School, London, and qualified as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries (L.S.A.) in 1840, having studied at St. George’s Hospital, London. In 1849 he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in England, by examination.

During 1868-9 he travelled as medical attended to Lord George Robert Charles Herbert Pembroke, the 13th Earl, on board the schooner Albatross on a voyage to the West Indies, the Fiji Islands, Norfolk Island and Sydney. In 1870 he became Medical Officer to the Postal Telegraph Department, and later Medical
Officer-in-Chief to the G.P.O., from which position he retired in 1891.

At various times he was also consulting Medical Officer to the Spanish Consulate in London, the Home for Penitent Females (London?), the Royal Maternity Charity (London?) and Queen Adelaide’s Lying-in Hospital (London?). He was also involved with the Infant Orphan Asylum in London.

He was the author of articles on the preservation of food, the ancient Mexican treatment of parturient women and the development and growth of boys.

His notebooks reveal interests in a wide variety of subjects, including comparative religions, languages, anthropology and natural history. During retirement, he wrote poetry, sketched and painted watercolours and carved wood. He died in 1910 at the age of 92, at that time Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, and described by The Lancet as “the Father of the Royal College of Surgeons”

Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 2 as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010

Keyword subject:
Medicine