Roche, Eleazer Birch (1848-1930), general practitioner and homoeopath

  • Roche, Eleazer Birch, 1848-1930, general practitioner and homoeopath
Date:
1782-1967
Reference:
MS.7856
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Notes, diaries, certificates and cuttings by or about E.B. Roche or, in a few cases, other members of his family.

Publication/Creation

1782-1967

Physical description

32 items

Acquisition note

Presented by the Rev. Dr. J. Talbot (via Professor Roger Cooter), 23rd March 2000.

Biographical note

Eleazer Birch Roche, known in the family as "Gillmer", was born in Liverpool in 1848. He was the son of John Roche M.D. (d. 1889) and Catherine Sarah Roche (née Gillmer); his grandfathers were John Roche of Cork, a professor of music, and Captain Eleazer Gillmer of the East India Company's troops. Further family background is set out in items 1-3 of this collection.

Eleazer Roche trained at King's College, London, obtaining the qualifications of M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. After qualifying he was House-Surgeon at King's College Hospital, where he was involved in identifying and examining the body of the explorer David Livingstone (1813-1873); subsequently he served as Surgical Registrar and Senior Demonstrator of Anatomy at King's College. In 1881 he married Helen Winter, the marriage producing seven children. After leaving London he was in general practice in Norwich, initially in partnership with his father, for many years. He was a Fellow and later President of the British Homoeopathic Society. He died in 1930.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Notes

The Roche and Gillmer papers are kept in two separate locations, divided by size. To order the material described here, readers should return to this top-level record for the collection and then select Standard-sized material (items 1-4, 8-9, 11-26, 28-32) and/or Outsize material (items 5-7, 10, 29).

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Accession number

  • acc. 351460