Ford, Edward (Ted) (1902 - 1986)

Summary

Ted Ford was a leader in the fields of preventive and tropical medicine. Between 1946 and 1968 he was Professor of Preventive Medicine and Director of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at the University of Sydney. During WWII he served in with the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps in significant roles in the Middle East, New Guinea, and at Land Headquarters in Melbourne. While in New Guinea he was instrumental in the anti-malaria campaign for Australian forces in the South Pacific. After the war he was on the reserve list until 1964. Ford Was actively involved in the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, being Vice-President 1970-1972, a member of several committees, and Curator of its library 1958-1986. He was a leading authority on the history of Australian medicine, the most notable of his contributions being his Bibliography of Australian Medicine 1790-1900 (1976).

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Chronology

1932

Education - MB BS, University of Melbourne

1933

Career position - Resident Medical Officer, Melbourne Hospital

1933

Career position - Stewart Lecturer in Anatomy, University of Melbourne

1934 - 1936

Career position - Senior Lecturer in Anatomy and Histology, University of Melbourne

1937

Career position - Lecturer, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney

1938

Education - Diploma in Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney

1940 - 1946

Career position - Served with the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps

1945

Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

1946

Education - Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians

1946

Education - MD, University of Melbourne

1946 - 1968

Career position - Director, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney

1947

Education - Diploma in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

1947 - 1968

Career position - Professor of Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney

1951 - 1965

Career position - Member, Editorial Committee, Australasian Annals of Medicine

1952 - 1963

Career position - Member, Research Advisory Committee, Royal Australasian College of Physicians

1953 - 1957

Career position - Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney

1958

Education - Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, United Kingdom

1958 - 1986

Career position - Curator of the library, Royal Australasian College of Physicians

1960

Award - Knight Bachelor (Kt)

1960 - 1961

Career position - Acting Vice-Chancellor, University of Sydney

1968

Life event - Retired

1968 - 1986

Career position - Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney

1969

Award - Neil Hamilton Fairley Medal, Royal Australasian College of Physicians and Royal College of Physicians, United Kingdom

1970 - 1972

Career position - Vice-President, Royal Australasian College of Physicians

1971

Award - DLitt (Hon), University of Sydney

1971 - 1986

Award - Fellow, Royal College of Pathologists of Australia

Related entries

Archival resources

History of Medicine Library, Royal Australasian College of Physicians

• Edward Ford - Records, 1900 - 1986; History of Medicine Library, Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Details

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

• Edward Ford - Records, 1920 - 1985; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Published resources

Books

• Ford, Edward, A bibliography of James George Beaney, M.D., F.R.C.S.E. (Sydney: School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney, 1953), [25] pp. Details
• Ford, Edward, Neil Hamilton Fairley (1891 - 1966) (Sydney: Australasian Medical Publishing Company, 1969), 19 pp. Details
• Ford, Edward, Bibliography of Australian medicine, 1790 - 1900 (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1976), 348 pp. Details
• Howie-Willis, Ian, An unending war: the Australian Army's struggle against malaria 1885 - 2015 (Newport (N.S.W.): Big Sky Publishing, 2016), 348 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Ford, Edward, 'Redfern, William (1774-1833)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 2: 1788 - 1850 I-Z, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1967), pp. 368-371. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020324b.htm. Details
• Ford, Edward, 'Campbell, Alfred Walter (1868-1937)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 541-542. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070544b.htm. Details
• Ford, Edward, 'Cowlishaw, Leslie (1877-1943)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 127-128. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080142b.htm. Details
• Tyquin, Michael B., 'Ford, Sir Edward (1902 - 1986), physician and professor of preventive medicine' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 17: 1981 - 1990 A-K, Diane Langmore, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007), pp. 400-1. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ford-sir-edward-ted-12503. Details

Journal Articles

• Backhouse, T. C.; and Ford, Edward, 'Obituary: G.A.M. Heydon', Medical Journal of Australia, 1963 (2(11)) (1963), 465-467. Details
• Ford, E., 'The Life and Influence of Joseph Bancroft, MD Bancroft Oration', The Medical Journal of Australia, 1 (1961), 153-170. Details
• Ford, Edward, 'The malaria problem in Australia and the Australian Pacific territories', Medical journal of Australia (1950), 749-60. Details
• Ford, Edward, 'Some early Australian medical publications', Medical History, 16 (3) (1972), 205-25. Details
• Ford, Edward, 'Mabel Josephine Mackerras', Medical Journal of Australia, 1972 (1) (1972), 604-6. Details
• Haneman, Ben, 'Sir Edward Ford (1902-1986)', Health and History, 1 (2/3) (1999), 209-212. Details
• Howie-Willis, Ian, 'Australian malariology during World War II (part 3 of "Pioneers of Australian military malariology"', Journal of Military and Veteran's History, 25 (2) (2017), 46-68. Details

Newspaper Articles

• Ford, Edward, 'Obituary: Harvey Sutton', Medical Journal of Australia, 1964 (1) (1964), 496-9. Details

Resources

• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/93021486. Details
• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5342956. Details
• 'Ford, Edward (1902-1986)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-552039. Details

See also

• Leithhead, Barry, A vision for Australia's health: Dr Cecil Cook at work (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019), 358 pp. Details
• Spencer, Margaret, Malaria: the Australian Experience, 1843-1991 (Townsville: Australian College of Tropical Medicine, 1994), 213 pp. Details
• Sprent, J. F. A., 'Ronald Harry Wharton 1923-83', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (2) (1985), 293-301. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9850620293. Details