Biographical entry Allen, Harry Brookes (1854 - 1926)

Summary

Harry Allen was professor of descriptive and surgical anatomy and pathology 1882-1906, and professor of pathology 1906-24 at the University of Melbourne. He had first joined the University in 1877 and was the first Australian medical graduate to be registered in Britain.

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Events

1876

Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) completed at the University of Melbourne

1877 - 1881

Career position - Anatomy Demonstrator and Sub-Conservator at the Museum of Anatomy and Pathology at the University of Melbourne

1878

Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD) received from the University of Melbourne

1879

Education - Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the University of Melbourne

1879 - 1883

Career position - Editor of the Australian Medical Journal

1881

Career position - Anatomy Lecturer with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Melbourne

1882 - 1906

Career position - Professor of Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy and Pathology at the University of Melbourne

1886 - 1889

Career position - Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Melbourne

1896 - 1924

Career position - Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Melbourne

1906 - 1924

Career position - Professor of Pathology at the University of Melbourne

1907

Career position - First President of the combined Medical Society of Victoria and the Victorian Branch of the British Medical Association

1914

Award - Knight Bachelor (Kt cr)

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Harry Brookes Allen - Records, 1901 - 1917, MS 002; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection

• Interview with Faith Thomas (sound recording), interviewer: Gordon Briscoe, 20 March 1990, TRC 2603/4; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

• Harry Brookes Allen - Records, 1868 - 1923; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science Exhibitions

• Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details

Books

• Allen, H. B., History of the Medical School. in University of Melbourne Medical School Jubilee 1914, 2nd edn, H. B. Allen, Ford & Son, Melbourne, 1914. Details

Journal Articles

• Davis, Vivianne de Vahl, 'Sir Harry Allen and the Foundation of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 5, no. 4, 1983, pp. 31-38. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9830540031.htm. Details

Online Resources

• 'Allen, Harry Brookes - Ms 2', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms002.html. Details
• 'Allen, Harry', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-580970. Details