Person
Dwyer, Catherine Winifred (Kate) (1861 - 1949)
- Born
- 13 June 1861
Tambaroora Goldfields, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 3 February 1949
Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Welfare worker
- Alternative Names
- Dwyer, Kate
Summary
Kate Dwyer was director of the Royal Hospital for Women, Paddington, New South Wales; the Renwick Hospital for Infants, New South Wales; and the Scarba Home for Children. She was also a member of the Standing Committee for the Reduction of Maternal and Infant Mortality. Dwyer campaigned for women workers and was a pioneer of social education and university reform.
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Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Book Sections
- Gallego, Viva, 'Dwyer, Catherine Winifred (Kate) (1861-1949)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 386-387. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dwyer-catherine-winifred-kate-6064. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6375473. Details
- 'Dwyer, Catherine Winifred (1863-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-767063. Details
See also
- Alexander, John A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1944 (Melbourne, Victoria: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1944), 906 pp. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 10 March 2003, Last modified: 18 August 2011