Person

Crowther, William Edward Lodewyk H. (1887 - 1981)

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Born
9 May 1887
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Died
31 May 1981
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Occupation
Surgeon and Historian

Summary

William Crowther was the son of E.L. Crowther and honorary adviser on Australian bibliography to the Tasmanian State Library from 1955. He collected much information on the history of medicine and natural history in Tasmania. In 1963 he donated his family's collection of Aboriginal skeletal remains to the Tasmanian Museum and progressively from 1964 his collection of over 15,000 books, manuscripts and historic material was given to the State Library of Tasmania.

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Chronology

1910
Education - MBBS, University of Melbourne
1913 - 1915
Career position - Served with the Australian Army Medical Corps
1915 - 1919
Career position - Served with the Australian Imperial Forces
1917 - 1973
Career position - Trustee, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
1918
Award - Distinguished Service Order (DSO)
1919 - 1958
Career position - Member of Council, Royal Society of Tasmania
1924 - 1928
Career position - Chairman, Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club
1933 - 1945
Career position - Medical Advisor to the Governor of Tasmania
1934 - 1935
Career position - President, Tasmanian Branch, British Medical Association
1934 - 1966
Career position - Member, Millbrook Rise Hospital Board, Tasmania
1940
Award - Royal Society of Tasmania Medal
1942 - 1943
Career position - President, Tasmanian Branch, British Medical Association
1943 - 1946
Career position - Member, Hobart Public Hospitals District Board
1946 - 1981
Award - Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
1952 - 1954
Career position - President, Medical Council of Tasmania
1955
Award - Commander of the British Empire (CBE)
1956 - 1969
Career position - Inaugural Chairman, Van Diemen's Land Folk Museum
1962 - 1981
Award - Life Member, Royal Society of Tasmania
1964
Award - Knight Bachelor (Kt)

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Archival resources

Archives Office of Tasmania

  • William Edward Lodewyk H. Crowther - Records, 1887 - 1982, CSO 7/23/127; Archives Office of Tasmania. Details

W L Crowther Library, State Library of Tasmania

  • William Edward Lodewyk H. Crowther - Records, 1910 - 1961; W L Crowther Library, State Library of Tasmania. Details

Published resources

Books

Book Sections

  • Crowther, W.E.L.H., 'Crowther, William Lodewyk (1817-1885), surgeon, naturalist and parliamentarian' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 3: 1851 - 1890 A-C, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1969), pp. 501-503. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030469b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • 'A Check List of the Writings of Dr. W. E. L. H. Crowther Dealing with the History of Medicine in Tasmania, Natural History, Tasmanian Aborigines etc., 1920 to 1960', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 95 (1961), 67-68. Details
  • Crowther, W., 'Introduction of Surgical Anaesthesia in Van Diemen's Land', Medical Journal of Australia (1947), 561-70. Details
  • Crowther, W.E.L., 'Aspects of the Life of a Colonial Surgeon: the Honourable W.L. Crowther, FRCS, CMZS., Sometime Premier of Tasmania', Medical Journal of Australia (1942), 770-773. Details
  • Crowther, W.E.L., 'Dr. E. S. P. Bedford and the Hospital and Medical School of Van Diemen's Land', The Medical Journal of Australia (1944), 25. Details
  • Crowther, W.E.L.H., 'Some Aspects of Medical Practice in Van Diemen's Land, 1825-1839', Medical Journal of Australia, 27 (April) (1935). Details
  • Crowther, W.E.L.H., 'Introduction to Professor Abbie's Survey of the Aboriginal Collection in the Tasmanian Museum', Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 98 (1964), 63-71. Details
  • Evans, Caroline, '"A funny old hobby": Sir William Crowther's collection of Aboriginal remains', Kanunnah, 4 (2) (2011), 1-25. https://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/128568/KANUNNAH4.pdf. Details
  • Marshall, Tony, '"The choosing of a proper hobby": Sir William Crowther and his library', Australian Library Journal, 56 (3/4) (2007), 405-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00049670.2007.10722432. Details

Resources

See also

Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn

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