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Book

Author
Kenny, Patrick (Sir)
Title
The founders of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Imprint
The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Melbourne, Victoria, 1984, 84 pp
Url
https://www.surgeons.org/-/media/Project/RACS/surgeons-org/files/our-heritage-archives/founders.pdf
Abstract

This is a necessarily brief account of those surgeons who signed the original Exordium to establish the College. It is a multiauthored task in which a leading Fellow in each
State of Australia and New Zealand has participated, and will serve as an historical record of the times of each of our Founding Fathers.
According to Smith's excellent History of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons from 1920 to 1935, published in The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery 40, August 1971, 41 surgeons can be listed as Founders of the College. They were:

New South Wales:
Andrew John Brady;
William Chisholm;
Charles Percy Barlow Clubbe;
Cyril Ernest Corlette;
Robert Gordon Craig;
Thomas Henry Fiaschi;
Alexander MacCormick;
Francis Antill Pockley;
Francis Percival Sandes;
Edward Thomas Thring;
Ralph Worrall.

Victoria:
James William Barrett;
Hugh Berchmans Devine;
Augustus Leo Kenny;
Basil Kilvington;
Felix Henry Meyer;
Reginald Herbert Morrison;
David Murray Morton;
Robert Hamilton Russell;
George Adlington Syme;
Bernard Traugott Zwar.

New Zealand:
Hugh Thomas Dyke Acland;
Louis Edward Barnett;
Henry Lindo Ferguson;
Donald Johnstone McGavin;
Carrick Hay Robertson;
David Storer Wylie.

South Australia:
Arthur Murray Cudmore;
William Anstey Giles;
Alexander Matheson Morgan;
Henry Simpson Newland;
Thomas George Wilson.

Queensland:
Donald Allan Cameron;
Graham Patrick Dixon;
John Lockhart Gibson;
Ernest Sandford Jackson;
William Nathaniel Robertson.

Tasmania
David Henry Edward Lines;
John Ramsay.

Western Australia
Frederick Augustus Hadley;
William Trethowan.

Corporate Bodies

People

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