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Stawell, Richard Rawdon (1864 - 1935)

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Physician
Born: 14 March 1864  Kew, Victoria, Australia.  Died: 18 April 1935  Melbourne, Victoria.
(Sir) Richard Rawdon Stawell was honorary physician to the Children's Hospital, Melbourne from 1893-1914, to out-patients at Melbourne Hospital from 1903-19, to in-patients from 1919-24 and a consulting physician from 1924. He also had a successful private practice. He was particularly concerned with the wider responsibilities of the medical profession in society. Stawell is commemorated by the Sir Richard Stawell Oration which was given in Melbourne from 1934 to 1986.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1887Bachelor of Medicine (MB) completed at the University of Melbourne
1888Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the Unviersity of Melbourne
1890Doctor of Medicine (MD) completed at the University of Melbourne
1890 - 1892Postgraduate work in the United Kingdom (London) and Germany (Tübingen)
1891Diploma of Public Health completed in London
1893 - 1908Private practice in Collins Street Melbourne
1893 - 1914Honorary Physician at the Children's Hospital in Melbourne
1903 - 1919Honorary Physician of out-patients at the Melbourne Hospital
1905 - 1935Member of the Melbourne Hospital board of management
1908 - 1935Private practice in Spring Street Melbourne
1910President of the British Medical Association, Victorian branch
1915 - 1916Head of the medical section of the 3rd Australian General Hospital, Australian Imperial Force
1916 - Member of the appeal board of the Repatriation Department
1917 - 1924Physician to in-patients at the Melbourne Hospital
1920President of the Melbourne Club
1924 - Consulting Physician at the Melbourne Hospital
1928President of the Melbourne Hospital board of management
1929Knight Bachelor (Kt cr)
1930 - 1932Inaugural President of the Association of Physicians of Australasia (later the Royal Australasian College of Physicians)
1930 - 1935Chairman of the Victorian Council of Mental Hygiene

 

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