Person

Greville, Ronald Wellesley (1912 - 2001)

Born
21 July 1912
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died
9 June 2001

Summary

Ron Greville, a medical graduate (1950), general practitioner and an anaesthetist from 1954 was a medical consultant to the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories 1954-1960. In 1961 he was appointed the first Director of the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Commission, a position he held until 1966.

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Books

  • Brogan, Alfred H., Committed to Saving Lives: a history of the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (South Yarra, Victoria: Hyland House, 1990), 301 pp. Pages 134-5, 139-40, 159, 169-70, 175, 189, 263. Details
  • CSL Commission, An introduction to Australia's Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (Parkville, Victyoria: Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Commission, 1979), 20 pp, https://www.eoas.info/bib-pdf/ASBS19100.pdf. Details
  • CSL Commission, CSL 70, 1916-1986: Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Commission, the Seventieth Anniversary Exhibition (Parkville, Victoria: Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Commission, 1986), 17 pp, https://www.eoas.info/bib-pdf/ASBS19099.pdf. Details

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