Person
Jones, William Ernest (1867 - 1957)
CMG
- Born
- 11 July 1867
Upper Gornal, Staffordshire, England - Died
- 1 May 1957
- Occupation
- Psychiatrist
Summary
William Jones was appointed Inspector-General of the Insane (1905), later Director of Mental Hygiene, in Victoria and held this office until 1937. He also served on various government inquiries into mental hygiene.
Details
Chronology
- 1905 - 1937
- Career position - Inspector-General of the insane in Victoria
- c. 1914 - c. 1918
- Military service - War service with the Australian Army Medical Corps
- 1921
- Career position - Chair of the commission of inquiry into lunacy in Western Australia
- 1929
- Career position - Ran a Federal Government inquiry into the mentally deficient
- 1933
- Career position - Advisor to the Tasmanian government on the rebuilding of New Norfolk Asylum
- 1935
- Award - Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
- 1947
- Career position - Chaired a government inquiry into the Victorian Health Department
Archival resources
Charles Brothers Museum, Mental Health Library, Office of Psychiatric Services
- William Ernest Jones - Records, 1905 - 1957; Charles Brothers Museum, Mental Health Library, Office of Psychiatric Services. Details
Published resources
Book Sections
- Foster, S. G., 'Jones, William Ernest (1867-1957), psychiatrist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 520-521. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090518b.htm. Details
- Mulder, Audrey, 'Dr William Ernest Jones, psychiatrist' in "Outpost medicine": Australasian studies on the history of medicine: Third National Conference of the Australian Society of the History of Medicine, Hobart, February 1993, Atkins, Susanne, Kirkby, Kenneth, Thomson, Philip and Pearn, John, eds (Hobart: University of Tasmania and the Australian Society of the History of Medicine, 1994), pp. 183-6. Details
Journal Articles
- Jones, Ross, 'Removing Some of the Dust from the Wheels of Civilization: William Ernest Jones and the 1928 Commonwealth Survey of Mental Deficiency', Australian Historical Studies, 40 (1) (2009), 63-78 . Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21539306. Details
- 'Jones, William Ernest (1867-1957)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1467273. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 26 February 2018
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