Archive of Dr Reginald L. Cheverton

Collection

How to
request

Only individual files or items can be requested not entire collections, series, or sub-series

Use the Navigate this collection tree to find the materials you wish to request for viewing in a reading room, at file or item level, then click the Request this button on those pages.

Help

Engagement diaries and tour diaries covering Dr Cheverton's career with the Colonial Medical Service in Cyprus, Nigeria, and the Gold Coast (Ghana), 1945-1963; photograph albums of Cyprus, British Honduras (Belize), and West Africa.

Dates

Creation: 1941-1979

Extent

0.23 linear metres (4 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 532/1, item 1].

Please see our help page for further guidance on citing archives and manuscripts.

Full range of shelfmarks:

MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 532/1-4

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 1193

Additional Description

Abstract

Diaries, papers, and photographs of Dr Reginald Leslie Cheverton from 1941-1979.

Biographical / Historical

Dr Reginald Leslie Cheverton MRCS, LRCP, was born on 27 Aug 1901 and attended St John's School in Leatherhead from 1913 to 1919. His education continued at the University of Birmingham from 1921 to 1927. In 1933, he married Joan L. Oertal and they had two daughters.

His career details are as follows:

House Surgeon, General Hospital, Birmingham, 1927
House Physician, General Hospital, Birmingham, 1927-1928
House Surgeon, Maternity Hospital, Birmingham, 1928
Colonial Medical Service, 1928-1952
District Medical Officer (DMO), Limassol, Cyprus, 1928-1935
External Examiner in Surgery, University of Cairo, 1932
Senior Medical Officer (SMO), Falkland Islands, 1935-1937
King George VI Coronation Medal, 1937
Senior Medical Officer (SMO), British Honduras (Belize), 1937-1942
Director of Medical Service (DMS), Cyprus, 1942-1946
Reporter to the Foreign Office on medical services in Buenos Aires, 1943
Instituted Anopheles Eradication Scheme, Cyprus, 1944
Assistant Director of Medical Service (ADMS), Lagos, Nigeria, 1946-1947
Deputy Director of Medical Service (DDMS), Lagos, Nigeria, 1947-1949
Director of Medical Service (DMS), Accra, Gold Coast (Ghana), 1949-1952
Vice President, First World Health Organization Conference on Malaria in Africa, 1950
Part-time Chairman of the International Conference on Medical Education in Africa, 1951
Medical Research Committee for West Africa, 1952
Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal, 1953
Assistant Senior Medical Officer (ASMO), South West Regional Hospital Board, England, 1953-1966
Commander of the Order of St John (CStJ), 1962
Vice Chairman of Conference on Health and Tuberculosis, Ibadan University, Nigeria, 1962
Headed enquiry into the Medical Services of Eastern Nigeria, 1963.

He retired to Malta in 1966 and returned to England to live in Bridgwater, Somerset, in 1985. He died on 24 Mar 1989.

Custodial History

Rex Cheverton's connection with Rhodes House Library dates back to 1963, when he was first approached to donate his papers to the Oxford Colonial Records Project. However, at this time he was working on a history of the West African Medical Service and was reluctant to part with any of his private papers and research materials to the library, though he did donate a number of published reports relating to health in the Commonwealth.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Joan Cheverton in 1991.

Related Materials

This collection should be read in conjunction with the collection (ref. WTI/RLC) held by the Wellcome Collection in London. See also Papers of Dr Rex Leslie Cheverton, MSS. Afr. s. 2276, and his contribution to the Oxford Development Records Project on Medicine and Public Health in British Tropical Africa (MSS. Afr. s. 1872/6-7).