Person

Watson, Archibald (1849 - 1940)

Born
27 July 1849
Tarcutta, New South Wales, Australia
Died
30 July 1940
Thursday Island, Australia
Occupation
Anatomist and Pathologist

Summary

Archibald Watson was Professor of Anatomy, University of Adelaide 1885-1919, Surgeon to Adelaide Hospital, a consultant surgeon during the Boer War and Chief Pathologist to the A.I.F. 1914. He did his initial medical studies at the universities in Gottingen and Paris, later qualifying as Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, and as Licentiate of the Sociaty of Apothecaries.

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Chronology

1885 - 1896
Career position - Honorary Pathologist, Adelaide Hospital
1885 - 1915
Career position - Elder Professor of Anatomy, University of Adelaide
1894 - 1895
Career position - President, South Australian Branch, British Medical Association
1904 - 1911
Career position - Honorary Pathologist, Adelaide Hospital
1919
Life event - Retired

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Archival resources

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

  • Archibald Watson - Records, 1873 - 1940, ML MSS 2979; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • Hedley Ralph Marston - Records, 1879 - 1963, MS 1682; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

  • Archibald Watson - Records, 1882 - 1966; Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

  • Elmslie, Robert; Nance, Susan, 'Watson, Archibald (1849-1940) , professor of anatomy' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 394-396. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120444b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Cleland, J.B., 'The Naturalist in Medicine with Particular Reference to Australia. The Archibald Watson Memorial Lecture', Medical Journal of Australia (1950), 547-551. Details
  • Newland, Henry, 'The Archibald Watson Memorial Lecture', Medical Journal of Australia (1947), 281-287. Details
  • Sunderland, Sydney, 'The Melbourne Medical School and some of Its "characters" 1931 - 1975', Chiron: journal of the University of Melbourne Medical Society, 2 (2) (1992), 45-52. Details

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See also

  • Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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