Person
Montgomery, Sydney Hamilton Rowan (1869 - 1916)
- Born
- 25 October 1869
Belfast, Ireland - Died
- 1 March 1916
Karrakatta, Western Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Psychiatrist
Summary
Sydney Montgomery played a vital role in the treatment and management of the insane in Western Australia (WA). As Inspector General and Medical Officer for the Insane, Montgomery oversaw the running of all mental health facilities in WA and introduced the 1904 Lunacy Act and the 1912 Inebriates Act. He was also the local branch president of the British Medical Association in 1909.
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Chronology
- 1879 - 1888
- Education - Studied at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Ireland
- 1894
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (ChB), Royal University of Ireland
- c. 1895 - c. 1896
- Career position - Ship's Surgeon on the City of Agra, India and South America
- 1897 - c. 1900
- Career position - Assistant at the Nottingham City Asylum for the Insane, UK
- 1901 - 1902
- Career position - Superintending Medical Officer of Asylums in Western Australia
- 20 June 1901
- Life event - Migrated to Australia (Fremantle, WA)
- 1903 -
- Career position - Inspector General and Medical Officer for the Insane
- 1904
- Career position - Drafted Western Australia's new Lunacy Act
- 1905
- Career position - Co-established (with WP Birmingham) a three-year training act for mental-care nurses
- 1910
- Career position - President, British Medical Association, Western Australian branch
- 1912
- Career position - Drafted the Inebriates Act
Published resources
Book Sections
- Ellis, A. S., 'Montgomery, Sydney Hamilton Rowan (1869-1916)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 559-560. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100545b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Ellis, Archie Samuel, 'Sydney Hamilton Montgomery (1869-1916), Psychiatrist', Australia and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 10 (1986), 559-560. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21538367. Details
- 'Montgomery, Sydney Hamilton Rowan (1869-1916)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469907. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 26 February 2018
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