Biographical entry Wilkie, David Elliot (1815 - 1885)

Summary

David Wilkie studied medicine in France and Scotland and later moved to Australia. There he specialized in diseases of women and children, and was an honorary physician to the Melbourne Hospital for many years. Wilkie was heavily involved in preventative medicine and was editor of the "Australian Medical Journal", 1858. David Wilkie was also interested in public affairs and after several attempts was finally elected to the Legislative Council for North Western Province in 1858. He took a leading role in Victoria's scientific societies including the medical associations and the Royal Society of Victoria and its predecessors.

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1836

Education - MB, University of Edinburgh

1838

Career event - Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh

1838

Life event - Migrated to South Australia

1839

Life event - Settled in Melbourne

1846

Career position - Inaugural Secretary, Port Philip Medical Association

1852

Career position - President, Victoria Medical Society

1854 - 1855

Career position - Treasurer, Philosophical Society of Victoria

1855 - 1857

Career position - Member, Philosophical Institute of Victoria

1856 - 1878

Career position - Treasurer, Melbourne Mechanics' Institute

1857 - 1859

Career position - Vice-President, Philosophical Institute of Victoria

1857 - 1859

Award - Life Member, Philosophical Institute of Victoria

1857 - 1861

Career position - Member, Exploration Committee, Victorian Exploring Expedition

1858 -

Career position - Editor, Australian medical journal

1858

Career position - President, Medical Society of Victoria

1858 - 1868

Career position - Member for the North Western Province, Legislative Council, Parliament of Victoria

1859 - 1885

Award - Life Member, Royal Society of Victoria

1874 - 1878

Career position - Member, Medical Board of Victoria

1881

Life event - Retired

Related entries

Published resources

Books

• Graham, Howard Boyd, The Honorable David Elliot Wilkie, M.D.: a pioneer of Melbourne (Sydney: Australasian Medical Publishing Company, 1956), 24 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Anon, 'Wilkie, David Elliot (1915 - 1885) physician' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn, ed., vol. 6 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1976), pp. 399-400. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wilkie-david-elliot-4852. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23894439. Details
• 'Wilkie, David Elliot (1815-1885)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1466456. Details

See also

• Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/index_w.html. Details