Person
Stawell, Richard Rawdon (1864 - 1935)
Kt
- Born
- 14 March 1864
Kew, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 18 April 1935
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Physician
Summary
Sir Richard Stawell was honorary physician to the Children's Hospital, Melbourne from 1893-1914, to out-patients at Melbourne Hospital from 1903-1919, to in-patients from 1919-1924 and a consulting physician from 1924. He also had a successful private practice. He was particularly concerned with the wider responsibilities of the medical profession in society. Stawell is commemorated by the Sir Richard Stawell Oration which was given in Melbourne from 1934 to 1986.
Details
Chronology
- 1887
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB), University of Melbourne
- 1888
- Education - Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Melbourne
- 1890
- Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Melbourne
- 1890 - 1892
- Education - Postgraduate work in the United Kingdom (London) and Germany (Tübingen)
- 1891
- Education - Diploma of Public Health completed in London
- 1893 - 1908
- Career position - Private practice in Collins Street Melbourne
- 1893 - 1914
- Career position - Honorary Physician at the Children's Hospital in Melbourne
- 1903 - 1919
- Career position - Honorary Physician of out-patients at the Melbourne Hospital
- 1905 - 1935
- Career position - Member of the Melbourne Hospital board of management
- 1908 - 1935
- Career position - Private practice in Spring Street Melbourne
- 1910
- Career position - President, British Medical Association, Victorian branch
- 1915 - 1916
- Career position - Head of the medical section of the 3rd Australian General Hospital, Australian Imperial Force
- 1916 -
- Career position - Member of the appeal board of the Repatriation Department
- 1917 - 1924
- Career position - Physician to in-patients at the Melbourne Hospital
- 1920
- Career position - President, Melbourne Club
- 1924 -
- Career position - Consulting Physician at the Melbourne Hospital
- 1928
- Career position - President, Melbourne Hospital board of management
- 1929
- Award - Knight Bachelor (Kt)
- 1930 - 1932
- Career position - Inaugural President of the Association of Physicians of Australasia (later the Royal Australasian College of Physicians)
- 1930 - 1935
- Career position - Chairman, Victorian Council of Mental Hygiene
Related entries
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Published resources
Book Sections
- Martin, F. I. R., 'Stawell, Sir Richard Rawdon (1864-1935), physician' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 56-57. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120070b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Cowan, R. W. T., 'Some Problems of our Expanding Universities. Sir Richard Stawell Oration', Medical Journal of Australia (1962), 189-196. Details
- Kellaway, C. H., 'The Sir Richard Stawell Oration. (Aspects of medical research in Australian medical Schools).', Medical Journal of Australia (1938), 365-374. Details
- Stawell, R. R., 'The Halford Oration. The Foundations of the Medical School and the Future of Medical Education', Medical Journal of Australia (1931), 1-8. Details
- Wood, A. Jeffreys, 'Obituary: Richard Rawdon Stawell', Medical journal of Australia (1935), 633-6. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7328604. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/94960240. Details
- 'Stawell, Richard (18640314-19350418)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1303931. Details
See also
- Fenner, F., 'Frank Macfarlane Burnet, 1899-1985', Historical Records of Australian Science, 7 (1) (1987), 39-77. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9870710039. Details
- Morison, Patricia, The Martin spirit: Charles Martin and the foundation of biological science in Australia (Canberra: Halstead Press, 2019), 296 pp. Details
- Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 16 June 2022