Person

Clendinnen, Leslie John (Jack) (1887 - 1954)

Born
16 May 1887
South Yarra, Victoria, Australia
Died
29 January 1954
Occupation
Radiologist

Summary

Jack Clendinnen was a pioneer in Australia of the interstitial use of radium needles in the treatment of malignant tumours. He was the son of pioneering radiologist Frederick Clendinnen and, having completed his medical studies in 1911, joined his father's practice. It was here that Jack served his apprenticeship in radiology. He took over the practice in 1913, when Frederick died. Rejected for overseas military service in WWI because he was then one of only three radiologists in Victoria, in 1914 he followed Frederick as honorary skiagraphist at the Melbourne Hospital while at the same time shouldering an increased workload at the Caulfield military hospital. In 1929 he became the Melbourne Hospital's first radiotherapist, followed by a 20-year term as radiotherapist at Prince Henry's Hospital. A victim himself of the still-unknown hazards of X-rays (he suffered for years with radiation dermatology), Clendinnen was for 22 years a council member of the Medical Defence Association of Victoria. He also served as a Trustee of the Wilsons Promontory National Park and the Sir Colin Mackenzie Sanctuary at Healesville

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Chronology

1911
Education - MB ChB, University of Melbourne
1911 - 1913
Career event - Joined the practice of Frederick Clendinnen (his father)
1913
Career event - Assumed management of the practice on Frederick's death
1914 - 1916?
Career position - Skiagraphist, Caulfield military hospital, Victoria
1914 - 1929
Career position - Honorary skiagraphist, Melbourne Hospital
1929 - 1933
Career position - Radiotherapist, Melbourne Hospital
1933 - 1953
Career position - Radiotherapist, Prince Henry's Hospital, Melbourne

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Book Sections

  • Bennett, Robert, 'Clendinnen, Frederick John (1860-1913) and Leslie John (1887-1954) radiologists' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 28-29. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080029b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Macdonald, Colin F., 'Roentgen's discovery of the X-rays and the pioneer Melbourne radiologists', Victorian historical magazine, 36 (4) (1965), 136-53. Details

Resources

See also

  • Ryan, James, Sutton, Keith and Baigent, Malcolm eds, Australasian Radiology: a History (Sydney: McGraw-Hill, 1996), 542 pp. Details

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