People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

4 July, 1919
Bruthen, Victoria, Australia

Death

16 October, 1998 (aged 79)
Malvern, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Cause of Death

Parkinson's

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 Paul's Preparatory School (Malvern, Vic)
• Melbourne Grammar School
• University of Melbourne

Occupation or Descriptor

• academic
• surgeon
• university teacher

Military Service

• World War II
• Korean War

Awards

• Henry Simpson Newland prize (Australian Medical Association)
• Sir Arthur Sims Commonwealth Travelling Professorship
• Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• Knight Bachelor
• Sir Hugh Devine medal (Royal Australasian College of Surgeons)

Legacies

• ESR Hughes award (RACS)
• Sir Edward Hughes Memorial Clinical Research Prize

Key Organisations

• QT Association of Victoria
• Road Trauma Committee (RACS Victoria)
• Australian Association of Stomal Therapy Nurses
• Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (federal)
• Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
• Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh)
• American College of Surgeons
• Philippine College of Surgeons
• Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
• Menzies Foundation
• Australian Medical Association (federal)
• Royal College of Surgeons (England)

Workplaces

• Royal Melbourne Hospital
• St Mark's Hospital, London
• Royal Children's Hospital (Melbourne)
• University of Melbourne
• Sydney Hospital
• Cabrini Hospital (Malvern, Melbourne)
• Alfred Hospital (Melbourne)
• Monash University