Margaret Menzies Campbell (née Shirlaw)

• Reference:GB 254 MS 164
• Former Reference:GB 254 MS 15/92
• Dates of Creation:1976-1981
• Name of Creator:
  Margaret Williamson Menzies Campbell
• Physical Description:
  0.02 linear metres

• Scope and Content

  Recollections, addresses and related papers, 1976-1981.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Margaret Williamson Menzies Campbell (nee Shirlaw), MBChB Hon FDS FRCSEd (1893-1990), dental surgeon, grew up in Darlington. She studied at St Andrews University, 1912-1918. From 1918-1919 she was a House Surgeon at Doncaster Royal Infirmary and then went into general practice with her aunt Dr Marion Gilchrist, the first woman to graduate from a Scottish university (Glasgow, 1894). Campbell held an appointment at the Redlands Hospital for Women, Glasgow. She married John Menzies Campbell, FDS RCSEd and RCPS Glasgow (d 1974), in 1924, and they set up in practice together in Glasgow. She was made an Honorary Fellow in Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1977, and endowed a series of lectures on the history of dentistry in Glasgow, Dundee and Edinburgh. She wrote, <title>A History of the Redlands: Glasgow Women's Private Hospital, (1981)

• Arrangement

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• Access Information

  Open for consultation subject to preservation requirements. Access must also conform to the restrictions of the Data Protection Act (2018), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, 2018) and any other relevant legislation or restrictions. Clinical information is closed for 100 years.

• Acquisition Information

  Deposited by Margret Williamson Menzies Campbell 01/03/1978 (AccM/047)

• Note

  Margaret Williamson Menzies Campbell (nee Shirlaw), MBChB Hon FDS FRCSEd (1893-1990), dental surgeon, grew up in Darlington. She studied at St Andrews University, 1912-1918. From 1918-1919 she was a House Surgeon at Doncaster Royal Infirmary and then went into general practice with her aunt Dr Marion Gilchrist, the first woman to graduate from a Scottish university (Glasgow, 1894). Campbell held an appointment at the Redlands Hospital for Women, Glasgow. She married John Menzies Campbell, FDS RCSEd and RCPS Glasgow (d 1974), in 1924, and they set up in practice together in Glasgow. She was made an Honorary Fellow in Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1977, and endowed a series of lectures on the history of dentistry in Glasgow, Dundee and Edinburgh. She wrote, <title>A History of the Redlands: Glasgow Women's Private Hospital, (1981)

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• Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

  The records are on paper

• Archivist's Note

  Description compiled by Mareike Platt

• Conditions Governing Use

  Reproduction is available subject to preservation requirements. Charges may be made for this service, and copyright and other restrictions may apply; please check with the Duty Archivist.

• Accruals

  Not expected

• Additional Information

  Published

  Catalogued

  MS 164

• Subjects

  Dentistry