Ladies' Guild of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, Glasgow Branch.

Scope and Content

Minute books, 1911-1970; cash books 1911-1950; account books 1925-1948; bank savings books 1932-1952; annual returns 1926-1945; clothing account book 1939-1957; wool subscription book , 1921-1944; documents relating to social events, 1950-1986.

Administrative / Biographical History

The Royal Benevolent Fund Guild was founded in 1909. A Glasgow branch was established in 1911, its purpose to assist in the work of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund in the following ways:

1. Obtaining additional subscriptions and making its operations more widely known.

2. In assisting distressed members of the medical profession, their wives, widows and families who were members of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. Relief was provided by grants of money and clothing and assisting in the education of children.

The Guild amalgamated with the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund in 1972.

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