Queen's College and its predecessor institution, Birmingham School of Medicine, Records of 1831-1905

Queen's College (University of Oxford)

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Formal clinical instruction of medical students had begun at the General Hospital in Birmingham in 1779, but it was not until December 1825 when William Sands Cox, son of Edward Townsend Cox, surgeon to the town infirmary, began a course of 'anatomical lectures with physiological and surgical observations'. Sands Cox had been educated at the King Edward VI school in Birmingham and was then apprenticed to his father before studying at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals in London from 18...

Birmingham School of Medicine

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University of Birmingham.

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Individual letters are regularly acquired, usually by purchase, to complement holdings of personal papers and institutional archives within the Special Collections Department.The letters are added to either a general sequence of autograph letters (described here) or one of a small number of separate sequences of autograph letters devoted to a particular individual. Reference: University of Birmingham, Guide to Special Collections Archives and Manuscripts (http://www.is.b...

Cox, William Sands, 1802-1875

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Epithet: surgeon; founder of Queen's College, Birmingham British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000680.0x00025c ...