Person
McKelvey, John Lawrance (1881 - 1939)
FRACS
- Born
- 9 February 1881
Ravenswood, Queensland, Australia - Died
- 7 July 1939
Potts Point, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Surgeon
Summary
Sir John McKelvey was Honorary Surgeon at the Royal Prince Alfred and St Vincent's Hospitals in New South Wales during the 1920s. During this time he also worked as a consultant at the South Sydney Women's and Canterbury District Memorial hospitals, and was surgical tutor (for ten years) and clinical surgery lecturer at the University of Sydney. He was knighted in 1933.
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Chronology
- 1905
- Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
- 1905
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB), University of Sydney
- 1906
- Career position - Acting Medical Superintendent at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
- 1907
- Career position - Demonstrator in Anatomy, University of Sydney
- 1908
- Career position - Medical Superintendent at the Melbourne Hospital, Victoria
- 1909 - c. 1920
- Career position - Medical Superintendent at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
- 1911
- Career position - Set up a private medical practice
- 1911
- Education - Master of Surgery (ChM), University of Sydney
- 1913 - c. 1920
- Career position - Honorary Assistant Surgeon at St Vincent's Hospital
- c. 1926 -
- Career position - Lecturer in Clinical Surgery, University of Sydney
- 1927
- Award - Foundation Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS)
- 1933
- Award - Knighted
- 1937 -
- Career position - Council member of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- 1939
- Career position - Vice-President of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Published resources
Book Sections
- Miller, Douglas, 'McKelvey, Sir John Lawrance (1881-1939), surgeon' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), p. 300. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100293b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21538098. Details
- 'McKelvey, John Lawrance (1881-1939)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476437. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 26 February 2018
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