Person
Chapple, Phoebe (1879 - 1967)
- Born
- 31 March 1879
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 24 March 1967
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Physician
Summary
Phoebe Chapple graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1904 and practised in Adelaide until she was 85. She distinguished herself during World War I and was awarded the Military Medal. Later she specialised in obstetrics and the veneral diseases of women. Chapple endowed a bursary for St Ann's College, University of Adelaide, which is administered in her name.
Details
Chronology
- 1898
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Adelaide
- 1904
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Adelaide
- 1905
- Career position - House Surgeon at the Adelaide Hospital
- 1906? - 1914
- Career position - Practised from her father's school at Prince Alfred College
- 1910 - c. 1940
- Career position - Honorary Doctor at Salvation Army Maternity Hospital for unmarried mothers
- 1914 - 1918
- Career position - Medical service for the British Army
- 1918
- Award - Military Medal (MM)
- 1919 - 1937
- Career position - Private practice in North Terrace, Adelaide
- 1921 - 1922
- Career position - Honorary Medical Officer at the Night Clinic (venereal diseases) for Women Patients at the Adelaide Hospital
- 1937 - 1964
- Career position - Private practice from her home at Norwood
Archival resources
State Records of South Australia
- Phoebe Chapple - Records; State Records of South Australia. 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
Book Sections
- Gibberd, Joyce, 'Chapple, Phoebe (1879-1967)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 615-616. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070625b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Neuhaus, Susan J., 'A woman at war: the life and times of Dr Phoebe Chapple MM (1879 - 1967, an Australian doctor on the Western Front', Journal of Military and Veterans' History, 21 (3) (2013), 40-4. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21537166. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/24146635501641980625. Details
- 'Chapple, Phoebe (18790331-19670324)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462827. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 10 October 2006
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