Person

Bage, Anna Frederika (1883 - 1970)

OBE FLS

Born
11 April 1883
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died
23 October 1970
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Occupation
Biologist
Alternative Names
  • Bage, Freda (Also known as)

Summary

Freda Bage OBE MSc FLS, was lecturer in charge of biology at the University of Queensland from 1913-1946, Principal of the Women's College 1914-1946 and the first woman elected a Member of Senate 1923-1949. Before then she was a junior demonstrator in biology, University of Melbourne 1907-1909 and later a senior demonstrator.

Bage is commemorated at the Women's College by a portrait by William Dargie and by the Freda Bage room, and in the University of Queensland by a grotesque depicting her in characteristic pose behind the wheel of a car.

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Chronology

1904
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
1906
Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne
1906 - 1909
Career position - Junior Demonstrator in Biology, University of Melbourne
1907
Award - McBain Research Scholarship, University of Melbourne
1908
Award - Victorian Government Research Scholarship
1910 - 1911
Award - King's College London research studentship
1912
Career position - Senior Demonstrator in Biology, University of Melbourne
1913 - 1922
Career position - Member, Field Naturalists' Club of Queensland
1913 - 1946
Career position - Lecturer in Biology, University of Queensland
1914 - 1946
Career position - Principal, Women's College, University of Queensland
1915
Career position - President, Field Naturalists' Club of Queensland
c. 1920
Award - Fellow, The Linnean Society of London (FLS)
1922 - 1923
Career position - President, Lyceum Club, Brisbane
1922 - 1962
Career position - Member, Queensland Naturalists' Club
1923 - 1949
Career position - Member of Senate, University of Queensland [First woman to be elected to the Senate]
1925 - 1931
Career position - President, Queensland Women's Hockey Association
1941
Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) - In recognition of service to the public service
1946
Life event - Retired
1951
Award - Doctor of Laws (LLD), honoris causa, University of Queensland
1962 - 1970
Award - Life Member, Queensland Naturalists' Club

Related Corporate Bodies

Archival resources

Janet Clarke Hall, University of Melbourne

  • Anna Frederika Bage - Records, 1907 - 1913; Janet Clarke Hall, University of Melbourne. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

  • Anna Frederika Bage - Records, 1907 - 1914; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

The University of Queensland Archives

  • Anna Frederika Bage - Records, 1913 - 1946, S279; The University of Queensland 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

Books

  • Bage, Freda, Cirripedia (Sydney: Government Printer, 1938), 19 pp. Details
  • Gregory, Helen, Vivant Professores: Distinguished Members of the University of Queensland, 1910-1940 (St Lucia: University of Queensland Library, 1987), 180 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Bell, Jacqueline, 'Bage, Anna Frederika (1883-1970), university teacher' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 131-132. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070136b.htm. Details
  • Bell, Jacqueline, 'Freda Bage (1883-1970) biologist' in 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Heather Radi, ed. (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988). Details

Journal Articles

  • Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Bage Family', Uni News, 11 (21) (2002), 4. Details

Resources

Resource Sections

See also

  • Alexander, John A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1944 (Melbourne, Victoria: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1944), 906 pp. Details
  • Carey, Jane, Taking to the field: a history of Australian women in science (Clayton, Vic.: Monash University Press, 2023), 297 pp. Details
  • Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne (Melbourne: Department of History, University of Melbourne, 2003), 168 pp. Details

Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes

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