Person
Barry, Keith Lewis (1896 - 1965)
- Born
- 11 September 1896
Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 14 January 1965
Wollstonecraft, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Author, Broadcaster, Medical practitioner and Musician
Summary
Medical practitioner Keith Barry rose to prominence as the author of the highly successful newspaper column The Diary of a Doctor Who Tells which began in the late 1920s and ran for 30 years. Barry also went on to write Music and the Listener (1933), before becoming music critic for the Sunday Telegraph. Around the same Barry began also began writing for the Australian Broadcasting Commission and was appointed part-time programme adviser, before becoming controller of programmes (1936) and later the assistant general manager of programmes (1938-1960). Throughout his career in the arts he remained a prominent figure in medicine and from 1948 was State and later federal president of the National Tuberculosis and Chest Association.
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Published resources
Book Sections
- Semmler, Clement, 'Barry, Keith Lewis (1895-1965), medical practitioner' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 13: 1940 - 1980 A-De, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993), pp. 123-124. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130147b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21536097. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/628149196426974791087. Details
- 'Barry, Keith Lewis (1896-1965)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462659. Details
Rebecca Rigby
Created: 20 December 2012, Last modified: 13 January 2022