People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

6 July, 1912
North Leith, Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, Scotland

Death

24 June, 1999 (aged 86)
Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Cause of Death

pneumonia

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• Scottish

Education

• Daniel Stewart’s College, Edinburgh
• University of Edinburgh (Scotland)

Occupation or Descriptor

• academic
• surgeon

Military Service

• World War II

Awards

• Royal College of Surgeons (England)
• Monash University
• Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• University of Melbourne

Key Organisations

• Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh)
• Royal College of Surgeons (England)
• Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (Vic)
• Monash University
• Surgical Research Society of Australasia
• American College of Surgeons

Workplaces

• Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
• Leicester Royal Infirmary (UK)
• Glasgow Victoria Infirmary
• Hammersmith Hospital, London
• Alfred Hospital (Melbourne)
• Royal Melbourne Hospital
• University of Melbourne (medicine)
• University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur