Crawford J. Pocock, Collection

Collection of items relating to Crawford J. Pocock, surgeon at Brighton and Hove Dispensary from 1862 to 1865. Includes a scrapbook album consisting of testimonial letters of twenty surgeons, physicians and lecturers who worked alongside Pocock at Guy's Hospital prior to his appointment as a surgeon at Brighton and Hove Dispensary. Carte de visite photographs of each person accompany the letters.

The scrapbook contains testimonials from the following individuals: G.H. Barlow, G. Owen Rees, William W. Gull, S.Osborne Habershon, Samuel Wilkes, Frederick W. Pavey, Edward Cock, John Hilton, John Birkett, Alfred Poland, J. Cooper Forster, Thomas Bryant, Arthur E. Durham, Henry Oldham, J. Braxton Hicks, Alfred Swaine Taylor, Walter Moxon, William Odling, James Stocker, Thomas Trocke. The scrapbook also contains 33 carte de visite photographs of the following individuals: J. Salter, Mr. Johnson, Henry Owens, [J.S. Tuke], John Galton, Isaac Morris, Lionel Burrell, I. King, M. Leonard Cass, A. Gardiner Brown, William Soper, Arthur Roper, Pembroke Minns, Morgan Edwards, J. Fenton Stamper, Samuel Cookson, A. Wilks, Harry Moore, John Smith, Robert Freeman, Fred. Woodman, T. Stevenson, and Astley Cooper, lecturer and surgeon at Guy's Hospital, London.

The collection also contains correspondence sent to Pocock from Brighton and Hove Dispensary, including letters informing him of special meetings, letters confirming Pocock's decision to resign from Brighton and Hove Dispensary, handwritten biography of Thomas Guy compiled by Pocock, and letters written by Pocock in his capacity as Surgeon to the Deaf and Dumb Institution.

The son of practitioner Gavin Pocock, Crawford J Pocock trained to become a surgeon at Guy's Hospital in London having first studied as an out-pupil at Sussex County Hospital and received a Diploma from the Royal College of Surgeons. He was then appointed House Surgeon to the Brighton and Hove Dispensary in 1862, and left there in 1865 to set up a private practice. Pocock later became an Honorary Surgeon to Brighton and Hove Dispensary and Surgeon to the Deaf and Dumb Institution, and was also President of the Brighton Medical Society.

Pocock was also a collector of art and engravings, and was a personal friend of the illustrator George Cruikshank. Pocock died of infleunza in 1890 and was survived by his widow and daughter.

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Purchased by Thackray Museum of Medicine from Dominic Winter Book Auctions, Lot 552, 6 October 1994.

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