University of Birmingham Staff Papers: Papers of Sir Leonard Parsons Collection 1910-1951

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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...

Parsons, Leonard G. (Leonard Gregory), Sir, 1879-1950

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Sir Leonard Parsons

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Sir Leonard Gregory Parsons, 1879-1950, paediatrician; educated at King Edward VI Grammar School and Mason College Birmingham; M.B., B.S. London, 1905. In 1910 he was appointed to Birmingham Children's Hospital and was the first Professor of Child Health at University of Birmingham, 1928-1946. Parsons obtained new buildings for the Children's Hospital and established the Institute of Child Health, 1945. He insisted upon scientific investigation of children's diseases and the importa...