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 entries
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
- Walker, D. R., 'Sutton, Harvey (1882-1963), professor of medicine' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 143-144. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120161b.htm. Details
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
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5677620. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/94932611. Details
- CA 2001 Australian Imperial Force, Base Records Office, 'NAA: B2455, Sutton Harvey', B2455 First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920, National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=8070660. Details
- 'Sutton, Harvey (18820218-19630621)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-638959. Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 2 March 2018