| Description | Typescripts of lectures delivered by Professor Billington, 1925-1932 (4 folders) with glass slides used to accompany his surgery lectures (2 boxes); notebooks containing lists of operations and at which hospital each performed, 1922-31 , with one also including details of papers read and published and books reviewed, 1905-1911 (2 volumes); notebooks containing lists of cases admitted under Mr Lloyd at Queen's Hospital, Birmingham with detailed notes made by Billington as house surgeon, 1900-1901 (2 volumes); photographs of facio-maxillary surgery cases undertaken by Billington and Harold Round at the 1st Southern General Hospital, Jaw Injuries Centre, 1918-1919, with manuscript list of patients. |
| Administrative History | William Billington (1876-1932), Professor of Surgery at the University of Birmingham, 1924-1932 and surgeon at the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham
He was born in Sandbach, Cheshire, the son of John Charles Billington of Elton Hall and was educated at Sandbach Grammar School and Wellington College and then at Mason University College, Birmingham and Kings College Hospital, London. He graduated in 1899, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1901. He became house surgeon at Queen's Hospital, Birmingham becoming senior house surgeon in 1926. During the First World War he also served at the 1st Southern General Hospital, based at the University, where he was involved in the treatment of men suffering wounds to the face. He was one of the founders of St Chad's Hospital, Hagley Road which was designed to meet the needs of the middle classes for special surgical and nursing home treatment. He was also involved with the movement for the new Hospital Centre in Birmingham as a member of the Executive Board and with the foundation of the Hospitals Contributory Association. He was active in research, developed new operations and published his work in medical journals. He was renowned for his work in cleft palate surgery and stomach surgery.
Source: obituaries in 'Birmingham Mail' and 'Birmingham Despatch', 8 February 1932 |
| Custodial History | Former location: University Collection 14/i/5 |