Person
D'Arcy, Constance Elizabeth (1879 - 1950)
DBE
- Born
- 1 June 1879
Rylstone, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 25 April 1950
Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
Summary
Dame Constance D'Arcy became an honorary surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney in 1908 and was for many years active in improving nursing skills and maternal care. She was Lecturer in Obstetrics, University of Sydney 1925-1939 and Deputy Chancellor 1943-1946.
Details
Chronology
- 1904
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Master of Surgery (ChM) completed at the University of Sydney
- 1905 - 1908?
- Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Hospital for Women in Paddington, New South Wales
- 1908 - ?
- Career position - Honorary Surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Women in Paddington
- 1908 - ?
- Career position - Opened practice in Macquarie Street, Sydney
- 1919 - 1949
- Career position - Member of the Senate at the University of Sydney
- 1923 - 1945
- Career position - Honorary Gynaecologist at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
- 1925 - 1939
- Career position - Lecturer in Clinical Obstetrics at the University of Sydney
- 1933 - 1934
- Career position - President of the Medical Women's Society of New South Wales
- 1935
- Award - Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
- 1943 - 1946
- Career position - Deputy Chancellor of the University of Sydney
Archival resources
University of Sydney, Archives
- Constance Elizabeth D'Arcy - Records, 1908 - 1946; University of Sydney, Archives. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Book Sections
- Radi, Heather, 'D'Arcy, Dame Constance Elizabeth (1879-1950), obstetrician and gynaecologist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 8 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 205-206. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080228b.htm. Details
- Radi, Heather, 'Constance D'Arcy (1879-1950) obstetrician' in 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Heather Radi, ed. (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988). Details
- Radi, Heather, 'Dame Constance Elizabeth D'Arcy, 1879-1950' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q18391608. Details
- 'D'Arcy, Constance Elizabeth (1879-1950)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-775086. Details
See also
- Alexander, John A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1944 (Melbourne, Victoria: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1944), 906 pp. Details
- McCarthy, Louella, 'Finding a space for women: the British Medical Association and women doctors in Australia, 1880 - 1939', Medical History, 62 (1) (2018), 91-111. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 15 February 2018
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