Person

Sutton, Harvey Vincent (1882 - 1963)

OBE

Born
18 February 1882
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Died
21 June 1963
Rose Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Medical scientist

Summary

Harvey Sutton was the first Director of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine 1930-1947. He inaugurated Health Week in 1921, helped to organise the Father and Son Welfare Movement of Australia (established in Sydney in 1926) and was for many years president of the Sydney Health Week Council. He is commemorated by a portrait by Joshua Smith which is held by the University of Sydney.

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Chronology

1902
Career position - Master of Surgery (ChM), University of Melbourne
1902
Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB), University of Melbourne
1904
Career position - Resident then Senior Resident Medical Officer, Children's Hospital, Melbourne
1905
Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Melbourne
1905 - 1908
Education - Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford, UK
1908
Life event - Competed for Australia in the 800 metres at the Olympic Games in London
1908
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Oxford
1908 - 1909
Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Charing Cross Hospital and the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine
1909 - 1916
Career position - Medical Officer, Victorian Department of Public Instruction
1916 - 1919
Military service - First World War. Major, Australian Army Medical Corps
1919
Education - Diploma in Public Health, completed in Melbourne
1919
Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) - Army - Medical Corps AIF - Egypt & Palestine
1920 - 1930
Career position - Lecturer (part-time ) in Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Sydney
1920 - 1930
Career position - Principal Medical Officer, New South Wales Department of Public Instruction
1923
Career position - President, Section I (Sanitary Science and Hygiene), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
1930
Career position - President, Section I (Medical Science and National Health), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
1930 - 1947
Career position - Professor of Preventive Medicine and first Director of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
1937 -
Career event - Member, Australian National Research Council
1937
Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)
c. 1939 - c. 1945
Career position - Inspector of army camps in New South Wales during World War II

Related Corporate Bodies

Published resources

Books

  • Harvey-Sutton, Alistair, Professor Harvey Sutton: a pioneer in public health and preventive medicine in Australia (Brisbane: CopyRight Publishing, 2017), 388 pp. Details
  • McDonald, G. L., Roll of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Sydney: Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 1988), 332 pp. Details

Book Sections

Journal Articles

  • Rodwell, Grant, 'Professor Harvey Sutton: national hygienist as eugenicist and educator', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 84 (2) (1998), 164. Details

Resources

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