Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to John Pentland Mahaffy, 5 November 1918 Letters 1916-1923 Thomas Kirkpatrick

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From 1910 until 1954 Thomas Percy Kirkpatrick (1869-1954) served as the registrar for the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. He also served as the general secretary of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland. He took a particular interest in what were then termed venereal diseases; to encourage his patients (many of whom were prostitutes) to attend, he held a clinic for women at a discreet early morning hour to facilitate anonymity. John Pentland Mahaffy (1839-1919) wrote much on the history of Trinity College Dublin and was appointed Vice-Provost in 1913. He served as Provost of Trinity College Dublin from November 1914 until his death in 1919.

 Royal College of Physicians of Ireland RCPI-2-3-2-14-55 https://letters1916.ie/item/4630 English Thomas Kirkpatrick 1918-11-05 John Pentland Mahaffy Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Male 1954 Industry and Public Administration Medicine Industry and Public Administration

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 5th November, 1918./// The Registrar, Trinity College, Dublin. Dear Sir, I am requested by the President and Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland to write to you with reference to the King's Professorship of the Institutes of Medicine in the School of Physic which has become vacant owing to the presumed death of the late Sir William Henry Thompson on October 10, 1918. As you are aware the vacant Professorship must be advertised for three months before elections can be held. The President and Fellows are anxious to know what arrangements the Board of Trinity College would wish to be made for the discharge of the late Professor's duties till the appointment of his successor. Further, does the Board of Trinit College desire that the elections should be held at the earliest possible date, or that such election should be pestponed for the present? The next meeting of the College will be held on on Friday, December 6, and I shall be glad to lay the views of the Board before the President and Fellows on that date. Yours faithfully, Fellow & Registrar. Thomas Kirkpatrick Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to Henry Edward Duke, 24 April 1917.Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to John Pentland Mahaffy, 5 November 1918Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to Alfred Miller, 7 December 1918Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to Herbert Eldon Roaf, 14 March 1919 Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to the Registrar of Trinity College, 29 March 1917Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to John Pentland Mahaffy, 5 November 1918