Person
Stanton, Byron Lionel (1891 - 1963)
- Born
- 7 July 1891
Palmerston North, New Zealand - Died
- 20 April 1963
Kew, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Physician and Pharmacist
Summary
Byron Lionel Stanton initially qualified as a pharmacist, but then took up medical studies. After graduating he worked at the Melbourne and Children's hospitals before spending a year in the Australian Army Medical Corps, Australian Imperial Force. Upon returning to Melbourne he set up a private medicine practice which he ran for many years. He also lectured to both the medicine and pharmacy courses at the University of Melbourne and the College of Pharmacy. In fact at one point he was lecturer of Pharmacy and Materia Medica to his fellow medical students. Stanton was Head of the Department of Materia Medica at the College of Pharmacy from 1927 to 1963.
Details
Chronology
- 1913
- Education - Completed Pharmacy training at the College of Pharmacy in Melbourne
- 1916 - 1917
- Military service - First World War. Staff Sergeant, Australian Army Medical Corps, Australian Imperial Force
- 1919 - 1963
- Career position - Lecturer in Pharmacy and Materia Medica, University of Melbourne
- 1921
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Melbourne
- 1921 - 1922
- Career position - Resident Medical Office, Melbourne Hospital
- 1925
- Career position - Assistant Pathologist, Children's Hospital, Melbourne
- 1926 -
- Career position - Member, Royal College of Physicians, London (MRCP)
- 1926
- Career position - Studies in England
- 1927 -
- Career position - Private practice in Melbourne
- 1927 - 1963
- Career position - Head of the Department of Materia Medica, College of Pharmacy
- 1930
- Award - Fellow, Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria
- 1937
- Career event - Member, Australian National Research Council
- 1937
- Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)
- 1937
- Career position - President, Section O (Pharmaceutical Science), Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1943 -
- Award - Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Related entries
Published resources
Book Sections
- Haines, Gregory, 'Stanton, Byron Lionel (1891-1963), Physician and Pharmacist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 16: 1940 - 1980 Pik-Z, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), pp. 293-294. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160356b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Stanton, Byron L., 'Presidential address: Endocrines in modern therapy [Section O - Pharmaceutical Science]', Report of the twenty-third meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Auckland meeting, January, 1937 (1937), 356-374. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21536069. Details
- CA 2001 Australian Imperial Force, Base Records Office, 'NAA: B2455, Stanton Byron Lionel', 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=8091952. Details
- 'Stanton, Byron Lionel (1891-1963)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1465813. Details
Annette Alafaci; Ken McInnes
Created: 18 September 2006, Last modified: 20 August 2024