Person

Lendon, Alfred Austin (1857? - 1935)

Born
1857?
Kent, England
Died
29 June 1935
North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Occupation
Physician and Medical historian

Summary

Alfred Lendon was a leading physician in South Australia. On arriving in Adelaide he was appointed Government Medical Officer and in 1884 went to Bordertown where there was an outbreak of smallpox. Between 1891 and 1894 he was Honorary Physician at the Adelaide Hospital. This was followed by many years' service at the Adelaide Children's Hospital, of which he had been a board member since 1885, and the Queen's Home. Lendon lectured in forensic medicine and obstetrics at the University of Adelaide from 1887 for over 40 years. He served two terms as President of the South Australian Branch of the British Medical Association. In 1898 he became President of the President South Australian District Trained Nurses Association. Lendon's research interests included hydatid disease.

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Chronology

1881
Education - Member, Royal College of Physicians, London
1881
Education - MD, University College, London
1883
Life event - Arrived in Adelaide
1884 -
Career position - Government Medical Officer, South Australia
1885 -
Career position - Member of the Board, Adelaide Children's Hospital
1887 - 1896
Career position - Lecturer in forensic medicine, University of Adelaide
1891 - 1894
Career position - Honorary Physician, Adelaide Hospital
1896 - 1897
Career position - President, South Australian Branch, British Medical Association
1898 - ?
Career position - President, President South Australian District Trained Nurses Association
1899 - 1932
Career position - Member, South Australian Medical Board
1901 - 1923
Career position - Lecturer in Obstetrics and Diseases of Infancy, University of Adelaide
1905 - 1906
Career position - President, South Australian Branch, British Medical Association
1912
Career position - President, South Australian Medical Board

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Archival resources

State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana

  • Alfred Austin Lendon - Records, 1868 - 1935, PRG 128; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Lendon, A. A., Jubilee of the Medical School (University of Adelaide) (Adelaide Hassall: 1935). Details
  • Lendon, Alfred Austin, Clinical lectures on hydatid disease of the lungs (London: Bailliere, 1902), 122 pp. Details
  • Lendon, Alfred Austin, Nodal fever, febris nodosa: sumptons, erythema nodosum, erythema multiforme (London: Bailliere, 1905), 90 pp. Details

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See also

  • Simpson, Donald, 'The Adelaide medical school, 1885-1914 : a study of Anglo-Australian synergies in medical education', Thesis, University of Adelaide, 2000, 260 pp. Details

McCarthy, G.J. and Helen Cohn

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