Hunt, Thomas Cecil

The first group of papers (Ref 1-16) consist of circulars, memoranda and reports, but there are also examples of clinical notes made by Hunt in his medical diaries as well as clinical charts. Little sorting of this section was necessary apart from the removal of a few duplicates.

A very miscellaneous group of papers, previously numbered 17-23, has been divided, so that personal and biographical material, including c.v., are Section B, correspondence is Section C, and the records of Hunt's involvement with international meetings of gastroenterologists, 1967-68, have been assigned to Section H with files on congresses which came in Accession 676.

Case records 1953-1968 (Section D) and clinical charts, etc, in Section A are closed because they contain sensitive personal data.

SUMMARY LIST

A War papers 1941-1945 [SOME ITEMS CLOSED ACCESS]

B Personal and biographical 1928, 1940s, 1960s, 1980

C Correspondence 1945-1966

D Case records 1936-1968 [CLOSED ACCESS]

E Publications 1928-1980

F Notes, drafts and lectures 1934-1979

G William Macmichael and The Gold-headed Cane 1916-1966

H Congresses and foreign visits 1958-1968, 1956-1980

J Higher education in the Commonwealth 1957-1959

Concordance:

old ref new ref

1-16 A.1-16

17/1-11 B.1-11

17/12 B.14

17/13 B.16

18-20 C.1-3

21-23 H.8-10

24/1-8 D.1-8

25/1-2 F.1-2

25/3 E.14

25/4 F.3

25/5 F.4

25/6 F.15

25/7-9 F.19-21

25/10 F.6

25/11 F.5

25/12 E.81

25/13 F.9

25/14 F.42

The first group of papers (Section A) consists of Hunt's wartime papers when he served in the RAMC as Lieutenant-Colonel in West and North Africa 1940-44, becoming officer in charge of Medical Division of 96th General Hospital. Subsequently (1944-45), he was Consultant Physician, Persia and Iraq Command (PAIFORCE) with the rank of Brigadier.

SUMMARY OF LIFE AND CAREER

1901 Born at Guildford (5 June)

Educated St Paul's School, London (after obtaining scholarship)

1923 Graduated BA, Magdalen College, Oxford (after obtaining a scholarship) 1st class, Physiology

1924 University scholar, St Mary's Hospital Medical School

1926 BM,BCh

1927 Awarded Radcliffe travelling fellowship: studied endocrine disease and metabolism, Berlin and Vienna

1928 MRCP

Medical Registrar St Mary's Hospital (from 1930 Consultant Physician)

1930 DM

1932 Helped to inaugurate Mediterranean and European Society of Gastroenterology

1935 FRCP

1940-45 Wartime service in Royal Army Medical Corps

1945 Returned to St Mary's Hospital

1956 President, Mediterranean and European Society of Gastroenterology (1st International Congress)

1956-1957 President, British Society of Gastroenterology

1962-1966 President, World Organisation of Gastroenterology (OMGE)

1964 Awarded CBE

1970 Helped to set up Digestive Disorders Foundation (British Digestive Foundation) - its Chairman for 10 years

1972 Harveian Orator

1980 Died, London (22 Dec)

Further details are given in the publications and obituaries in Section B

At Wellcome Collection:

The PAIFORCE papers in the RAMC collection contain reports on malaria, heatstroke, anaemia, etc.