Footnote to history

Following the family story précised at reference 1, I thought to check up on the BMJ, that is to say the issue of 19th January, 1907.

A few key strokes and not many more seconds later, I find that the entire run of the BMJ, from 1840, has been digitised and this particular issue is publicly available. The obituary notice is indeed there. One can only suppose that the BMJ must be a highly regarded journal to be accorded this sort of presence on the internet.

I share two additional snippets.

This Dr. Toller also did time at Colney Hatch, the tower of which was visible from the allotment I used to work in north London, approximately at gmaps 51.604725, -0.153904. Mentioned before, but not traced today, with reference 4 not being quite the thing.

While the prize set up to honour his son is still visible. 'At King’s College, Cambridge, [Leslie Barrett Cole] was given an exhibition, and at St Thomas’s he won the Mead medal and the Toller prize. The return to Cambridge was a venture; for Addenbrooke’s Hospital was below London standards, though the university connection gave it potential. Cole did much to revitalize it, working for a day when it should be the clinical centre for the Cambridge medical school'. But this was a long time ago and there appears to have been some consolidation since with the Toller Prize becoming the Seymour Graves Toller Prize.

PS 1: maybe I am catching the family history bug!

PS 2: but I shall have to try to be less sloppy. Seymour Graves Toller is not the consolidation of a bunch of unrelated small prizes into one large prize, as I had assumed, rather the full name of the Toller in question...

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/toy-boat.html.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_BMJ.

Reference 3: https://www.bmj.com/archive.

Reference 4: http://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=allotment+friern.