Guild of St Luke

[rogervmarshall]

I believe the Guild was a Church of England foundation or charity that sponsored students through medical school if they agreed also to train and work as medical missionaries. My grandfather was sponsored by the Guild in 1903 and later worked as a medical missionary in the Solomon Islands but I can find no actual records on the Guild - references to it in the articles of a Catholic equivalent and another person looking for information (in 1947!) but the Guild itself does not seem to appear anywhere. Can anyone help?

[dawnsh]

Several references in the British Newspaper Archive or at Find MyPast if you have the relevant subscription

[stanmapstone]

Robert Brett (surgeon) He did other practical good work in founding the Guild of St. Luke, which consists of a band of medical men who co-operate with the clergy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Brett_%28surgeon%29
Arnott had long been interested in the work of the Church and in October 1864 had helped to found a Brotherhood of St Luke with Reginald Eager, John Wickham Legg, Charles Frederick Lethbridge, and George William Rigden,   http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E003785b.htm
Also http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Henry-Arnott/-2093535832
Stan

[GrahamSimons]

There is some material at the London Metropolitan Archives - I found the references via Discovery on the TNA website.
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/6aecf315-50b9-4e33-8d88-dccc2a97da28

You might find links via www.mundus.ac.uk

[stanmapstone]

THE GUILD OF ST. LUKE.-The 16th anniversary.     The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Oct 20, 1880
The confraternity consists of students and practitioners of medicine being communicants of the English Church. The object of the guild is to promote and defend the Catholic faith, especially among members of the medical profession, by frequent and regular communions, intercessory prayer, personal influence, and the promotion of works of mercy. Among the good works which it aims to set on foot are medical missions, a fund having been started to send a medical missionary to Kohlapur in the diocese of Bombay, to co-operate with the Rev. J. Taylor, the agent of the Society for the Propogation of the Gospel in that place.

Stan

[rogervmarshall]

Thanks for your responses - plenty for me to follow up on.