Person
Eades, Richard (1809 - 1867)
FRCS (Ir)
- Born
- 15 August 1809
Dublin, Ireland - Died
- 12 October 1867
Windsor, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Physician
Summary
Richard Eades ran a private medical practice in Adelaide from 1849 to 1852 and in Melbourne from 1852 to 1867. He was also physician to the Melbourne Hospital (1859-1866), lectured on materia medica in the Government Analytical Laboratory and began an extra-mural course for medical students, which hastened the establishment of the University of Melbourne Medical School. After completing his studies in his home country of England, Eades went to Paris to study botany and chemistry and then migrated to Australia in 1848. Eades was a Foundation Member of both the Philosophical Society of Victoria and the Philosophical Institute of Victoria. He also served on the Exploration Committee which organised the Victorian Exploring Expedition from 1858 to 1862.
Details
Chronology
- 1832
- Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), Trinity College Dublin
- 1834 -
- Career position - Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London
- 1836
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB), Trinity College Dublin
- 1844
- Education - Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland
- 1848
- Life event - Migrated to South Australia
- 1849 - 1852
- Career position - Private practice in South Australia
- c. 1853 -
- Career position - Private practice in Melbourne
- 1854 - 1855
- Career position - Foundation Member, Philosophical Society of Victoria
- 1855 - 1859
- Career position - Foundation Member of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria
- 1856 - 1867
- Career position - Official visitor to the Lunatic Asylum
- 1858 - 1862
- Career position - Member of the Exploration Committee of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria (later Royal Society of Victoria)
- 1859
- Career position - Member of Council, Philosophical Institute of Victoria
- 1859 - 1860
- Career position - Mayor of Melbourne
- 1859 - 1866
- Career position - Physician to the Melbourne Hospital
- 1859 - 1867
- Career position - Member, Royal Society of Victoria
- 1860 - 1861
- Career position - Vice-President of the Council, Royal Society of Victoria
- 1862 - 1867
- Career position - First Lecturer in Materia Medica and Therapeutics, University of Melbourne
- 1865 - 1867
- Career position - Health Officer for Melbourne
- 1884
- Award - Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (FRCS)
Related entries
Published resources
Book Sections
- Russell, K. F., 'Eades, Richard (1809-1867)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 4: 1851 - 1890 D-J, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1972), pp. 124-125. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040123b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- 'Obituary: Dr Eades', Australian Medical Journal, 1867 (Oct.) (1867), 309-12. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24002879. Details
- 'Eades, Richard (1809-1867)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1463756. Details
See also
- Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/index_e.html. Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 4 June 2019