Person
Brown, Vera Scantlebury (1889 - 1946)
OBE
- Born
- 6 August 1889
Linton, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 14 July 1946
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Physician and Paediatrician
Summary
Vera Scantlebury Brown, the wife of Edward Byam Brown, was director of the Victorian Health Department's section of infant welfare 1926-1946. She wrote books on the care of infants and young children and her 1937 report for the National Health and Medical Research Council prompted government funding of the Lady Gowrie Child Centres.
Details
Chronology
- 1914
- Career position - Resident Medical Officer at Melbourne Hospital
- 1914
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB), Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Melbourne
- 1915 - 1917
- Career position - Resident staff at the Children's Hospital
- 1917 - 1919
- Career position - Assistant Surgeon in the Royal Army Medical Corps
- 1919 - 1946
- Career position - Many honorary appointments including Queen Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, the Women's and Children's hospitals, the Victorian Baby Health Centres Association, and the Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria
- 1921 - 1946
- Career position - Medical Officer in charge of city baby health centres (part-time)
- 1924
- Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Melbourne
- 1925
- Career position - Survey of the welfare of women and children, comparing Victoria with New Zealand for the Victorian Government
- 1926 - 1946
- Career position - Director of the section of infant welfare for the Health Department (part-time)
- 1938
- Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
- 1946
- Career position - Annual travelling scholarship of £750 established by the Vera Scantlebury Brown Child Welfare Memorial Trust
Related entries
Husband
Archival resources
The University of Melbourne Archives
- Vera Scantlebury Brown - Records; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Books
- Sheard, Heather, A heart undivided: the life of Vera Scantlebury Brown ([Carlton, Vic.]: Faclty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, 2016), 198 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Reiger, Kerreen, 'Vera Scantlebury Brown (1889-1946) doctor' in 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Heather Radi, ed. (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988). Details
Edited Books
- Radi, H. ed., 200 Australian Women: a Redress Anthology (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988), 268 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Anderson, Fay, 'Vera Scantlebury Brown: a Singular Life', Australasian Science, 19 (6) (1998), 48. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4793448. Details
- 'Scantlebury Brown, Vera (1889-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-775092. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Brown, Vera Scantlebury (1889-1946), Biographical Entry', in Australian Women's Archives Project, National Foundation for Australian Women, 2002, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0065b.htm. Details
See also
- Alexander, John A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1944 (Melbourne, Victoria: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1944), 906 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 26 February 2018
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