Person

Smith, Grafton Elliot (1871 - 1937)

FRS

Born
15 August 1871
Grafton, New South Wales, Australia
Died
1 January 1937
Broadstairs, Kent, England
Occupation
Anatomist and Anthropologist

Summary

Sir Grafton Smith entered the University of Sydney in 1888 and graduated MB and ChM in 1893. He was a Resident Medical Officer at the Prince Alfred Hospital 1893 and a Demonstrator in Anatomy 1894-1895. He left Australia in 1896 and later held professorial appointments in Egypt and England.

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Chronology

1893
Career position - Resident Medical Officer, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
1893
Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Master of Surgery (MCh), University of Sydney
1894 - 1895
Career position - Demonstrator in Anatomy, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
1896
Life event - Left Australia
1907
Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)
1912
Award - Royal Medal, The Royal Society, London

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Grafton Elliot Smith - Records, 1896 - 1936, MS 067; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

University of Sydney, Archives

  • Grafton Elliot Smith - Records, 1896 - 1936, P 162; University of Sydney, Archives. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Dawson, W. R., Sir Grafton Elliot Smith: a biographical record by his colleagues (London: Cape, 1938), 272 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Blunt, Michael J., 'Smith, Sir Grafton Elliot (1871-1937), professor of anatomy, egyptologist and anthropologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 11: 1891 - 1939 Nes-Smi, Geoffrey Serle, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), pp. 645-646. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110665b.htm. Details
  • Richards, Graham, 'Sir Grafton Elliot Smith, 1871-1937' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details

Edited Books

  • Elkin, A. P.; and Macintosh, N. W. G. eds, Grafton Elliot Smith: the man and his work (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1974), 232 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Abbie, A. A., 'Sir Grafton Elliot Smith', Bulletin of the Post-Graduate Committee in Medicine, University of Sydney (1949), 101-151. Details
  • Foley, Paul B., and Catherine E. Storey., 'History of neurology in Australia and New Zealand', Handbook of clinical neurology, 95 (2010), 781-800. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0072-9752(08)02148-9. Details
  • Geffen, Laurie and Spencer, Nick J., 'Early Australian neuroscientists and the tyranny of distance', Journal of the history of the neurosciences, 33 (1) (2024), 57-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/0964704X.2023.2232824. Details
  • Macmillan, M., 'Evolution and the neurosciences down-under', Journal of the history of the neurosciences, 18 (2) (2009), 150-96. https://doi.org/10.1080/09647040701662377. Details
  • Wilson, J. T., 'Sir Grafton Elliot Smith', Obituary notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, 2 (1938), 323-33. Details
  • Wilson. J. T., 'Sir Grafton Elliot Smith: a biographical sketch of his earlier career', Journal of anatomy, 66 (1936), 1-6. Details

Resources

See also

Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes

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