| Title |
The Papers of John Pater |
| Reference |
GBR/0014/PTER |
| Creator |
Pater, John Edward, 1911-1989, Government under-secretary |
| Covering Dates |
1951–1985 |
| Extent and Medium |
6 volumes |
| Repository |
Churchill Archives Centre |
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| Content and context |
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John Pater was born on 15 March 1911. In 1938 he married Margaret Anderson Furtado (born 1911) and they had two sons and a daughter. He entered the civil service in 1933 in the Ministry of Health. He was then appointed private secretary to the Chief Medical Officer and in 1936 to the permanent secretary. In 1941 he accompanied the surveyors and wrote much of the Gray-Topping report on London hospitals and during 1943-1946 he had a leading part in the formulation of plans for a new health service and was responsible for preparing the instructions for parliamentary counsel for the 1946 legislation. As under-secretary from 1946 Pater had the task of ensuring that the terms of the legislation were made clear to the new hospital authorities. He remained in charge of the ministry's hospitals division until 1960. He was director of establishments from 1960 to 1965 and until he retired in October 1973 took charge of the ministry's division dealing with local authority services.
This small collection consists of notebooks of official visits to USA, Poland and Scandinavia, as well as his unpublished autobiography.
These papers were deposited at Churchill Archives Centre by Mrs M. Pater in March 1992.
This collection is owned by Churchill College.
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Access and Use
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The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Churchill Archives Centre is open from Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm. A prior appointment and two forms of identification are required.
Researchers wishing to publish excerpts from the papers must obtain prior permission from the copyright holders and should seek advice from Archives Centre staff.
Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of John Pater, PTER
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| Further information |
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A copy of this finding aid is available for consultation at Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, the National Register of Archives, London and on the Janus website, http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/.
This collection (fonds) level description and catalogue were produced by Louise King of Churchill Archives Centre using information from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) and the papers themselves.
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| Index Terms |
| Civil Service |
| Hospitals |
| Pater, John Edward (1911-1989) Government under-secretary |
| Churchill/PTER contains: |
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1
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Notebook of visit to USA. This notebook (and that in PTER 2) records information from Pater's trip with Sir George Godber to look at the Graduate Hospital Administrator training scheme in the USA. As well as visiting courses they visited hospitals and the Rockefeller Foundation.
1 volume. |
1951 |
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2
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Notebook of visit to USA. This notebook (and that in PTER 1) records information from Pater's trip with Sir George Godber to look at the Graduate Hospital Administrator training scheme in the USA. As well as visiting courses they visited hospitals and the Rockefeller Foundation.
1 volume. |
1951 |
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3
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Notebook of visit to Poland.
1 volume. |
1959 |
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4
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Notebook of visit to Denmark and Sweden. This notebook records information from Pater's four week trip with Sir George Godber when they saw what the Scandinavian health services were like.
1 volume. |
1959 |
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5
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Notebook of visit to Finland and Norway. This notebook records information from Pater's four week trip with Sir George Godber when they saw what the Scandinavian health services were like.
1 volume. |
1959 |
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6
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Apologia Pro Vita Sua (Unpublished Autobiography). This typed manuscript covers Pater's life from birth to around the time of his retirement.
63 folios. |
Dec 1985 |
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