People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

12 August, 1897
Rose Park, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Death

27 December, 1955 (aged 58)
Prahran, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Cause of Death

cancer (not specified)

Religious Influence

Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.

• Anglican

Education

• St Peter's College (Adelaide)
• University of Melbourne

Occupation

• autobiographer/memoirist
• communist
• mental health practitioner
• poet
• public servant
• soldier

Military Service

• World War I

Key Events

• Royal Commission into the Hospital for the Insane, Kew (Vic, 1924)

Groups

• Angry Penguins

Key Organisations

• British Psychological Society
• Melbourne Institute for Psychoanalysis

Political Activism

• Communist

Workplaces

• Dept of Health (Vic)
• Kew Asylum (Melbourne)
• Hospital for the Insane (Sunbury, Melbourne)
• Royal Melbourne Hospital
• Hospital for the Insane (Mont Park, Melbourne)
• Alfred Hospital (Melbourne)