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
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. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080554b.htm. 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
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q323080. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/59891113. Details
- 'Flynn, John (1880-1951)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-635341. Details
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
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_f.html. Details
- Engineers Australia ed., Wonders never cease: 100 Australian engineering achievements (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2019), 236 pp. pp.122-123. Details
- Palmer, Vance, National portraits (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1960), 230 pp. Details
- Paterson, M. S., 'John Conrad Jaeger 1907-1979', Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (3) (1982), 64-88. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9820530064. Details
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Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 7 April 2022
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