Records of Professor Hitchin, Dundee Dental School

Dundee Dental Health Association Minutes, 1931-1939; Dundee Dental School and Hospital, General Correspondence and accounts, 1948-1961; Documents relating to the reopening of the Dundee Dental school, 1877-1954; Dundee Dental hospital reports, 1948-1966; General Dundee University correspondence, 1953-1954; papers of the Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry, 1954-1960.

Professor Aylwin Drakeford Hitchin held the Boyd Chair of Dental Surgery at the University of Dundee from 1947-1977, and was Dean of the Dundee Dental Hospital and school for most of that time. Professor Hitchin had an international reputation for his work on the pathogenesis of dental abnormalities and received a number of professional accolades, including being awarded a CBE in 1970. Professor Hitchin died on October 1st, 1996.

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For biographical details see Contact, November 1996, Vol. 14, no. 2

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Fonds level description compiled by Gary Smith, student assistant, May 2004. Description updated by Jennifer Johnstone, Archive Trainee, November 2007.

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Acquired in 1977