Person

Flynn, John (1880 - 1951)

Born
25 November 1880
Moliagul, Victoria, Australia
Died
5 May 1951
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Minister of religion and Missionary

Summary

John Flynn became founder and superintendent of the Australian Inland Mission of the Presbyterian Church of Australia 1912. In May 1928 he began the Aerial Medical Service for people in remote areas of inland Australia, which still survives today as the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

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Published resources

Books

  • Hains, Brigid, The Ice and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn and the Myth of the Frontier (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2002), 219 pp. Details
  • Knight, Linsay and Cheng, Christopher, Australia's Greatest Inventions and Innovations (North Sydney, N.S.W.: Random House Australia, 2012), 184 pp. Pages 40, 42 (Royal Flying Doctor Service 40-46). Details

Book Sections

  • Bucknall, Graeme, 'Flynn, John (1880-1951), Presbyterian minister' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 531-534. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/flynn-john-6200. Details
  • Hains, Brigid, 'Mawson of the Antarctic, Flynn of the Inland: progressive heroes on Australia's ecological frontiers' in Ecology and empire: environmental history of settler societies, Griffiths, Tom; and Robin, Libby, eds (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997), pp. 154-68. Details

Resources

Reviews

  • Hains, Brigid, The Ice and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn and the Myth of the Frontier (2002)
    Hince, Bernadette, Historical Records of Australian Science, 14 (4), (2003), 547-548. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR03010. Details

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Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 7 April 2022

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