Lendon, Alan Harding (1903 - 1973)

Summary

Alan Lendon was a highly-respected Adelaide surgeon most of whose career was at the (Royal) Adelaide Hospital. He played a prominent role in the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, being Chairman of the Court of Examiners and of the South Australian State Committee. Lendon was also a keen conservationist and ornithologist. He was involved in the Fauna and Flora Board which managed Flinders Chase, and Chairman of the Flora and Fauna Advisory Committee to the South Australian Minister of Agriculture. His ornithological interests led him to serve as President of several local bird organisations, including the Avicultural Society of South Australia, the South Australian Ornithological Association, and the Royal Australasian Ornithological Union. Lendon's particular interest was in the breeding birds in captivity. He was awarded twelve Bronze Medals, official recognition for having bred a species in captivity for the first time. He published Australian parrots in captivity (1951) and updated Neville Cayley's Australian parrots in field and aviary (1973). Lendon collected the first specimen of the Ruff recorded for Australia 1962.

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Chronology

1927

Education - MB BS, University of Adelaide

1928

Career position - Resident Medical Officer, Adelaide Hospital

1931

Education - Qualified as Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons, United Kingdom

1932 - 1936

Career position - Honorary Clinical Assistant, Adelaide Hospital

1936 - 1939

Career position - Honorary Assistant Surgeon, Adelaide Hospital

1938 - 1949

Career position - Lecturer, Dental School, South Australia

1938 - 1973

Award - Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

1939 - 1947

Career position - Honorary Assistant Surgeon, Royal Adelaide Hospital

1940 - 1941

Career position - President, South Australian Ornithological Association

1940 - 1946

Military service - Served with the Australian Army Medical Corps

1940 - 1949

Career position - President, Avicultural Society of South Australia

1947 - 1948

Career position - President, South Australian Ornithological Association

1947 - 1949

Career position - President, Royal Zoological Society of South Australia

1947 - 1963

Career position - Honorary Surgeon, Royal Adelaide Hospital

1949 - 1957

Career position - Member, Court of Examiners, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

1951 - 1964

Career position - Chairman, South Australian State Committee, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

1951 - 1973

Award - Life Member, Avicultural Society of South Australia

1957 - ?

Career position - Chairman, Court of Examiners, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

1960

Career position - Founding Member, Adelaide Ornithologists Club

1961

Career position - President, Adelaide Ornithologists Club

1962 - 1973

Career position - Chairman, Flora and Fauna Advisory Committee to the South Australian Minister of Agriculture

1966 - 1967

Career position - President, Royal Australasian Ornithological Union

1970

Career position - President, Adelaide Ornithologists Club

Related entries

Published resources

Journal Articles

• Ackland, T. H., 'Alan Harding Lendon', Medical journal of Australia, 2 (2 (13 July)) (1974), 73-4. https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1974.tb93602.x. Details
• B., J. M., 'Obituary: Alan Harding Lendon', Emu, 74 (1) (1974), 60-61. https://doi.org/10.1071/MU974059b. Details
• Hughes, J. E., 'Alan Harding Lendon', Medical journal of Australia, 1 (9 (2 March)) (1974), 325-6. https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1974.tb47719.x. Details
• Smith, M., 'Alan Harding Lendon', Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery, 44 (1) (1974), 80-4. Https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-2197.1974.tb06529.x. Details

Resources

• 'Lendon, Allan Harding (1903-1973)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476016. Details

See also

• Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details