Person
Skirving, Robert Scot (1859 - 1956)
- Born
- 18 December 1859
Haddington, Scotland - Died
- 15 July 1956
Bellevue Hill, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Medical scientist and Surgeon
Summary
Robert Skirving was a lecturer at the University of Sydney in Clinical Medicine 1889-1911 and Chief Medical Adviser to the AMP Society (Australian Mutual Provident Society), Sydney 1911-1936.
Details
Chronology
- 1876 - 1881
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB ChM), University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1881 - c. 1883
- Career position - House Physician, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1883
- Career position - Medical Practitioner based in Queensland Australia
- 1883 - 1884
- Career position - Medical Superintendent, Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
- 1884 - 1889
- Career position - Honorary Physician, The Sydney Hospital for Sick Children, Australia
- 1884 - 1889
- Career position - Honorary Assistant Physician, Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
- 1889 - 1911
- Career position - Honorary Physician, Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
- 1889 - 1923
- Career position - Honorary Surgeon, St Vincent's Hospital, Australia
- 1891 - 1892
- Career Position - President, New South Wales Branch, British Medical Association
- 1911 - 1956
- Career position - Honorary Consulting Physician, Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
- 1928
- Career event - Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- 1938 - 1956
- Career event - Foundation Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- Robert Scot Skirving - Records, 1936, MS 027; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Angus & Robertson - Records, 1824 - 1933, ML MSS 314; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
- Robert Scot Skirving - Records, c. 1859 - c. 1956, Uncatalogued MSS SET210; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
- Robert Scot Skirving - Records, c. 1875 - c. 1955, ML MSS 367; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details
Book Sections
- Young, J., 'Skirving, Robert Scot (1859-1956), Physician and Surgeon' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 11: 1891 - 1939 Nes-Smi, Geoffrey Serle, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), pp. 626-627. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110643b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21537554. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/72984478. Details
- 'Scot Skirving, R (1859-1956)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-624418. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Skirving, Robert Scot - Ms 27', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms027.html. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 9 August 2018
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